It’s true that there have been some wild fires in my province recently. Fortunately, and I type this while knocking on the possibly wood of my desk, there are no big fires at all in my particular valley, so far anyway. So while our earlier heat wave has been followed by a significant amount of … Continue reading I’m fine. Are you fine?
Tag: writing
Greyish Mauve (flash fiction)
Here's a silly story I wrote in response to a microfiction monday prompt last month - the prompt was "paint" and because of other things I was working on at the time, I ended up using some minor knowledge of nautical camouflage for the finale. There are ways I could integrate this history better into … Continue reading Greyish Mauve (flash fiction)
Wax and Wane (flash fiction)
The shoemaker’s children did not have no shoes – they had the very best of shoes.Not fancy shoes, not made with glass or glitter, not stiletto-heeled or flat canvased, not bearing blinking lights or tiny wheels. Simply perfect shoes. Every half-moon night, the shoemaker created these shoes.Good quality material. Built by experienced, fairly-compensated and still-curious … Continue reading Wax and Wane (flash fiction)
Egg (Microfiction)
It was forty-seven minutes after ten in the evening on a mid-March night when Landrigan pulled up his eye-shade, stared up at the white stuccoed ceiling, and announced - “I know what I am.” His companion of fifteen years four months and ten weeks but who was counting said, “What?” “I’m an egg,” Landrigan said. … Continue reading Egg (Microfiction)
A curious writer versus AI “hallucination”
I use, among others, the Proton email service. I have no complaints about the email service.Awhile ago now, the same company who provides this email service also began to offer (and promote) Lumo.AI.I want to be very clear here - I have never used any AI to "write" any of my stories, poems, blog posts, … Continue reading A curious writer versus AI “hallucination”