As the sand crunched beneath my toes, the first beams of morning sun brushed my face and my arm swung back and forth in a keen arc. I could be found here most mornings, enjoying the sunrise, doing my thing.

"'Morning Ed," I yelled out.

"'Mornin'," He came back, not looking up from the electric screen as it issued slight bits of noise every so often.

" ( Read more... )

The human race was very, very old and weary. We have been fighting a race of insect-warriors for many, many years and were thought to be on a verge of breakthrough. We have pushed them back into the [name] sector within our region of space and things were looking up for us. We fought very well, although many died in our battles and I lost many ( Read more... )

I sat in the window, watching the people stroll by. How many of them are actually happy with their lives? I opened my mouth, clamping down on my sandwich, tearing a fair-sized chuck out of it. Am I missing something in my life, or is that normal?

The chair next to me screeched in protest as it was dragged out of place. She sat down next to me. More ( Read more... )

This is the edited version from the prior post. Feel free to comment. Note that some of the proper nouns I'm not definitely settled on and will likely end up changing some day.
Outer Space

One of my favorite things about exploring space is the immense amount of time you have to yourself. Granted, we have our day-to-day duties, but beyond that, we ( Read more... )

I've edited the first part and I'll be posting the results as soon as I can go through and approve all the edits I've made and fix a few things I've marked to fix. Sharon-I checked the settings for the last post and it says it's friends-only, so I'm not sure why you can't see it. Is anybody else not able to see it?

I've placed my previous fiction idea on hold. I'm currently working on something different that I will post pieces of it as I finish them. Stay tuned.

I've decided to do this a little bit differently, making the process more gradual and showing a bit more of the process to where everything comes from, which takes more time. Mostly because I feel I need more time and I just can't pop out a story very quickly. I'd rather allow for some mental background processing that seems to take time but proves ( Read more... )

I'm going to start this entry by introducing you to my latest creation: Wikifiction. What is Wikifiction? Wikifiction is an idea I dreamed up for a method to write fiction about a random topic. To do this, you simply go to Wikipedia's website and simply ask to go to a random Wikipedia article. Keep track of the page and visit two more (sometimes ( Read more... )

I've decided this is to become my fiction journal. Or, my literary artwork space, if you will ( Read more... )

Crossing my fingers, I hope this week is as good as it can potentially be. Watch it be a disaster instead . . .