Progress, Not Perfection
CHAPTER FIVE “It happened again,” Evan said as he slammed his fist onto the table. “Weeks of testing had and we have gotten no further. The containment field harmonics just fall apart once those damn signals start appearing.” Aldric is certain that […]
Silence filled the lab as another test ended. The brief respite from the hours filled with the high-pitched whine of overworked power converters was a relief. Weeks of testing resulted in little progress in containing the massive energy output of Aldric’s dimensional […]
Aldric lay in bed looking out the window overhead. It was one of the few luxuries he afforded himself. Having windows on the moon was expensive, and a little dangerous, but being locked inside his labs for most of his waking hours […]
Evan heads home after a long night of work and dreams of a better future.
“Not to make things any gloomier, but what happens if you die?” Margaret asked.
Evan went pale, but Aldric smiled and said, “The lab explodes and the moon falls into chaos.” Aldric walked around the room to the locked liquor cabinet, reached into his pocket, and pulled an old-fashioned key for the mechanical lock. “So, it is in everybody’s best interest to keep me alive.” He pushed the key into the lock and turned it. The satisfying click of the lock opening made him smile. “There is something to be said for the beauty of simple things,” he whispered.
Welcome to the new website. It took me about a year to decide on whether or not I wanted to do this. You see I already have a website, but it is a sadly unattended thing at this time. Life got away […]
So today I started my Mini-Nano adventure. My personal goal is to hit twenty-five minutes of writing per day for the next thirty days. I did not get a lot of response on the poll I posted regarding Mini-Nano, but those who […]
Ask any dedicated author and they will tell you that coming up with the idea for a story is probably the easiest part of the writing process. Sitting down and writing the book is certainly time consuming, while editing and rewriting is […]
Once he was satisfied, Aldric shut off the water and stood in the stall, watching the droplets of water fall from his hair and skin to the floor below. The chaotic rhythm of their impacts on the ceramic made him smile. “Perfectly […]
AJ Beamish is the man! Here you have it folks, the guest blog post I wrote for today’s Blog Tour stop can be found right HERE! Since it is Halloween and all, I figured a post on fear and how to build […]
