Neal @ March 11, 2010 # No Comment Yet
TERSE WORDSMITHS, ATTEND: WEIRD TALES, that neo-venerable publication whose pages were graced by the first fruits of H.P. Lovecraft and Tennessee Williams, is currently accepting submissions for One Minute Weird Tales, which they describe as “sharp little micro-stories of 20 to 150 words, presented in a quick sequence of brief one-screen chunks.” (See more at [...]
Neal @ March 7, 2010 # No Comment Yet
FOR THE FIRST TIME ANYWHERE, we at Metaphorager.Net are offering the opportunity to influence the next Prosatio Silban Story (Gosh!) titled “Final Kindness,” potentially altering the course of the entire chapter (Golly!), if not the novel of which it’s a part (Wow!). Here’s how to play: Simply opine upon one of the follwing ledes (and [...]
Neal @ February 24, 2010 # No Comment Yet
THESE FABLES CONNECT A NEED to tell a particular story with a near-lifelong habit of worldbuilding. They are self-contained excerpts from a picaresque novel-in-progress titled Around the Rimless Sea: Mystic Fables for Religious Misfits, and though set as fantasies, the Prosatio Silban fables are intended for anyone seeking the Divine in a day job, so [...]
Neal @ January 31, 2010 # 2 Comments
LONGTIME READERS WILL PRICK THEIR pointed ears at the mention of “Obscure Research Labs.” If you’re not one of them, but especially if you are, please read on:
Back around 1989 or so, I became involved with a group billing itself as “the world’s only TRUE research organization … devoted to finding out Just What’s Going [...]
Neal @ January 11, 2010 # No Comment Yet
(sans apology to and/or connection with Messrs. Jarry et Ballard.)
THERE ARE THE HARLEY RIDERS. They would not dream of owning any transportation they couldn’t twiddle with or hack. Every knob, every switch, every gear is known and its connection to the whole machine is understood, monitored, adjusted. Their dreams are the smooth metal touch and [...]
