Chapter Seven: Fate and Basketball It was hard not to pass the Thanksgiving holiday struggling back across the Anacostia River after Gyra and Dansel got a chance to see what was on the other side of it. Most of the makeshift town along those silvery… Read More
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JBB, No such thing as transitional musak after the Apocalypse
Five: November 13, 2012 After a few days of waiting for ‘better winds’ (during which one of Mister Stimpson’s ‘cousins’ showed up with some money he owed) and ‘a restock of supplies’ (wherein, Dansel was sent with the shotgun for two-day’s journey to the… Read More
JBB, Message from a world of Fear, Insanity
Four: October 30, 2012 Gyra and Dansel sat patiently while the owner of that shack retold his favorite memory, from just before the Near-Revolution of October, 2010. There was tea for them, but it was cold. And the old man’s version of cookies was something… Read More
JBB, Bringing the Old Girl to Water
Three: October 24, 2012 Another hypothesis: should Washingtonians go on here, struggling as they do, people might begin to reflect, about preventable miseries, out loud. Gyra took Dansel’s hand as they walked on, and she started singing: “Went a long ways North to make my… Read More
JBB, Authentic Agitation
Two: October 10, 2012 It would be furthermore appropriate to hypothesize that, should the Washington Redskins remain as they are, bookie Dansel Darrons could not have been a very happy man. He and the Cannoneer, that brave father to Miss Gyra (and it took less… Read More
JBB, The Red and Gold Reserve
One: September 24, 2012 To begin, let us assume that, where I am, things remain exactly as they are. If so, then Gyra could not have been a very nice girl. When she was seven, and her little sister got a new doll, Gyra snatched… Read More
Be Good. Be Food.
An essay on the healing power of your favorite food that is perfect for lunch-break reading. Or, you can read it between meals and it’ll just make you feel super-hungry.
DC Earthquake 2010
To my brave fellow Washingtonians from whom sleep was (not at all) violently stolen for at least two minutes last night… I salute you. Wear it with pride: And on that same note, we’re still on schedule to travel through time, two years into DC’s… Read More
Paperclip Safari 5: Paperclip Savers Are Environmentalists Too
Did you know that even some of nature’s greatest and solitary beasts will come together in times of distress? The Bald Eagle is an example. Normally solitary when not part of a mated pair, bald eagles will defend territories and are unafraid of fighting showy… Read More
Looking for more fiction?
Just to let you know that I’ve added a new links page–Mo’ Fictions, with a list of wonderful websites where you can read or download (and sometimes stalk), well, mo’ fictions: many more upcoming or freshly published exotic fiction stories, online. Here are some, to… Read More
