The Undying Pen
As an artistic girl fights to save her father from charges of sorcery, she discovers that the pen she "borrowed" from him is a piece of an angry god.
2 form rejections. 4 personal rejections. 1 market shut down, 1 no response
Finalist 2010 Q2 Writers of the Future
Apiphilia
There's such a thing as liking bees too much.
9 form rejections. 3 personal rejections. 1 no response.
Tiberius Faces the Void
The void contains all. Wait, that can't be right.
4 form rejections. 7 personal rejections. 1 withdrawal. 1 no response.
Space Operetta of the Gods
Gods are just the world's way of making more worlds.
14 form rejections. 9 personal rejections.
What Dreams May Run
A bond trader pays for what he's done.
12 form rejections. 2 personal rejections. 1 shortlisted, then rejected.
Burning Time
The Sun is swallowing the Earth, and the two people who think they can save the world are an engineer and ... a dancer?
6 form rejections.
Thou Art God
A poem about who wakes up every day.
4 form rejections.1 personal rejection. 1 no response.
On The Flight Of A Rhinoceros
We pet animals because we miss having fur.
1 form rejection.
Force in Russian gods
*chuckles* Do you have any trouble reading stories about the North Pole?
I actually enjoy reading stories that are set, or partly set, in Southern California ’round where I grew up. A couple of examples are:
Lucifer’s Hammer
Footfall
Both of these are by Niven Pournelle.
I’ve also enjoyed some of the novels by Dean Koontz. A couple of times I’ve thought about going and sightseeing in some of the places he describes. So far, I’ve managed to talk myself out of it. I more than half suspect that these places are more than half from his imagination, and I don’t really want to be confronted with the reality that the locations are entirely fictional.
A plug for Dean Koontz: Most of his stuff is pretty good. If you’re judging him by Demon Seed (the book was a total stinker and the TV movie wasn’t much better), read something else by him. He’s worth reading. Hey, you gave Robert Sawyer a second chance after reading Calculating God (yeesh! Now I have to wash my hands off with soap after typing the name of that awful book).
It’s not so much stories set in Boston, it’s stories using elements grown long familiar that don’t tell me anything new that I rebel against. Maybe I’m easily bored, but after you hear how great such and such was for the hundredth time, you start to tune out.
It’s a joke in the rest of the country, y’know.
On last night’s news, Ted Kennedy was shown circling a sports stadium in a golf cart. I was relieved to see that he wasn’t the one driving.
http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/30094209/
I’m not sure why another Kennedy would want to be associated with golf, though.
http://www.courttv.com/trials/moxley/verdict-guilty_ctv.html
Q: What did Ted Kennedy say to Willy (Kennedy) Smith?
A: If I knew you were having problems with your girlfriend, I’d have offered to drive her home.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kennedy_Smith
My point exactly.