The Intruder Within
Sometimes movies stick in one’s brain. One such movie showed up on TV in 1983. I remember the day well. I had a birthday party, Pac-Man frosting was on my cake and that night a…
Month: August 2017
Vertically-Endowed Tales — Valentine’s Day
Vertically-Endowed Tales are my version of Tall Tales. They are basically just goofing around, writing exercises, if one will. I don’t try to make them perfect. They are like jamming in a band, not really…
Fun With Revision
I looked at some older things I wrote tonight. One story, And Then There Were None, was accepted for an anthology a few years ago. The anthology then got cancelled. The story went back into…
Shine on you crazy Shining
I watched Room 237 the other night. It’s a documentary about hidden meanings and subtext in The Shining. Some theories sound plausible. Others sound like a case of people reading too much into the movie….