| Title |
Posted On |
Synopsis |
| I'm sorry I got caught in your house |
11/14/08 |
I swear it wasn't my idea. |
| Vote You Bastards |
11/04/08 |
Don't be swine: do your civic duty. |
| Frankenstein Modern |
10/31/08 |
An update of an old classic, in time for Halloween (bacon extra). |
| Cowgirl Up |
10/24/08 |
For Jeannine. Everyone else take care of yourselves- I want to be done with dedications this year. |
| SeXplosive |
10/17/08 |
From the creators of the nitroglycerine rimjob. |
| Ticking |
10/10/08 |
About breast cancer and the biological imperative; from the makers of the cunnilingus hand grenade. |
| Sex Bomb |
10/03/08 |
Brought to you by fellatio dynamite. |
| Red |
09/26/08 |
It’s an election season, and I can’t say no to a gimmick. |
| White |
09/19/08 |
A belated (and interrelated) anniversary of another kind. |
| Blue |
09/12/08 |
A belated Labor Day gift to anyone who's ever worked an honest day. |
| Must Like Classical |
09/05/08 |
You are what you hear. |
| Cinderella Shoes |
08/29/08 |
You'll feel witty. |
| Honest Day’s Playbor |
08/22/08 |
Given a little somethin-somethin to a virtual economy. |
| Part Time |
08/15/08 |
Getting by's going to be a fulltime gig soon enough. I reckon |
| Automatic Justice |
08/08/08 |
A story of a truly impartial judiciary. |
| Glass Half Drunk |
08/01/08 |
A sloppy little bedtime story, not shaken, but slurred. |
| About Your Breasts |
07/25/08 |
Symposium from your friendly neighborhood expert on a subject very near and dear to my heart (and, consequently, yours). |
| The Courage of Our Convictions |
07/18/08 |
We must not let this happen. |
| e-bort |
07/11/08 |
A little ditty about Saudi ladies and choice. |
| Four-Fisted Computing |
07/04/08 |
If these processors could talk... |
| My Beloved's Eyes |
06/27/08 |
Love means sharing your organs. |
| Undisciplined |
06/20/08 |
Ugh. Bastard server ate original witty thing. Insert new witty thing later. Or put burned carcass of server here instead. Either make cheery decoration. |
| Off Grid |
06/13/08 |
Isolation as a solution to the problem with isolationism. |
| Cockfight |
06/06/08 |
Farmer's soliloquy about honor, order and his place in the world. |
| People Like Her |
05/30/08 |
Attraction by subtraction. |
| Artificial Romance |
05/23/08 |
On love in the age of work-induced hibernation. |
| Project Kansas |
05/16/08 |
Epic questions about the confectionary afterlife. |
| The Cost of Being Me |
05/09/08 |
Musings about consequence in the afterlife. |
| Randomly Accessed Memory |
05/02/08 |
Recall working, just out of order. |
| Analog Memory |
04/25/08 |
For the convenience of our other patrons, please rewind after viewing. |
| A Hole in Memory |
04/18/08 |
About the cruel trickery of memory. For Dee. |
| Ancestral Memory |
04/11/08 |
There's all kinds of information hidden in our DNA... |
| Genetic Memory |
04/04/08 |
The story of a man and his dog (and the sock that brought them together). |
| Medicine |
03/28/08 |
Not to be taken orally. |
| Last Gift |
03/21/08 |
I'll have Christmas in March if I want to. For Effie. |
| Freetown |
03/14/08 |
A guided tour through Sierra Leone from a man with a singular sense of justice. |
| Two For One |
03/07/08 |
Two can be the loneliest number, too. |
| First Goodbye |
02/29/08 |
A romance as bittersweet as wine. |
| Living Legend |
02/22/08 |
I can't quell my obsession with Russia... or British sitcoms. |
| Fainting Game |
02/15/08 |
Because I find myself between Valentine's Day stories at the moment, actually, you get something else entirely. |
| Super Duper Tuesday Blues |
02/08/08 |
Sequel to last month's Primary School. |
| One Man's Home |
02/01/08 |
Oftentimes the best punishment is subtlety. |
| Rejection |
01/25/08 |
Sometimes it's hard not to take medicine personally. |
| fightsex |
01/18/08 |
There is not a thin line between love and hate; there is, however, a thin line between sex and punching someone in the face (medically speaking). |
| Life Imprisonment |
01/11/08 |
Sometimes the only escape is incarceration. |
| Primary School |
01/04/08 |
Because I'm already full of fire and brimstone this electoral season. |
| Naughty or Nice |
12/28/07 |
As my gift to you this year, I’m letting you choose what’s coming down your chimney. |
| Gun Control |
12/21/07 |
A somewhat satirical look at what control means. |
| Fearless |
12/14/07 |
Based roughly around Watson's experiment with Little Albert, and the damage it may have caused. |
| Forget |
12/07/07 |
Sometimes the best kind of revenge is to let go. |
| Bourbon and Blood |
11/30/07 |
What negotiation tastes like. |
| Sentence |
11/23/07 |
Sometimes the hardest thing in the world is to finish yours. |
| Present Tense |
11/16/07 |
The rectal temperature of the American workplace (insert favorite fecal joke here). |
| She Wants to be Seduced |
11/09/07 |
A sleazy little sonata by moonlight. |
| Cro'atan |
11/02/07 |
Because it's Halloween(ish) and I feel like telling a ghost story. |
| Civil Discourse |
10/26/07 |
Can't we all just get along? |
| Playing Dirty |
10/19/07 |
All's fair in love and war. |
| Control Your Breathing |
10/12/07 |
It's all about self-control. |
| Baby Back |
10/05/07 |
I wonder what the return policy might be. |
| War Profiteering |
9/28/07 |
Hey, it's a living. |
| Some Blood For Oil |
9/21/07 |
A modest proposal. |
| AmeriCricket |
9/14/07 |
A bug's life. |
| 888 |
9/07/07 |
Myanmar. |
| Smoke |
8/31/07 |
Because. |
| Exodus |
8/24/07 |
Repeating. |
| I Ran |
8/17/07 |
Watch me go. |
| Canary |
8/10/07 |
Life in a mineshaft. |
| Today, at Twelve |
8/03/07 |
A story about loss and dying. |
| One Last Time |
7/27/07 |
A haunted tale of unrequited love. |
| There is smoke |
7/20/07 |
There's been a fire burning for quite some time. |
| Fire Ants |
7/13/07 |
A meditation on childhood genocide and the nature of godliness. |
| Aqua Samba |
7/06/07 |
A gentle lullaby about mortality, destiny and hubris. |
| The Last 64 Days of Old Soldiers |
6/29/07 |
Because humanity may not go out with a bang at all. |
| Terrorists: 1 |
6/22/07 |
Letting paranoia run rampant on paper. |
| Anynol |
6/15/07 |
The hidden dangers of strange intoxication. |
| Ghost Dust |
6/08/07 |
If you read only one short story this year... |
| Archangelsk Protocols |
6/01/07 |
The end of an era. We'd gone so long pretending we were high-class. I'm not proud of myself. Okay. A little proud. |
| Brain Chocolate |
5/25/07 |
Eat and be saved. |
| Filter |
5/18/07 |
Because when the internet goes silent, no one will hear us scream. |
| Kipland |
5/11/07 |
The voices tell you to read it, goddamnit. |
| Nikah |
5/04/07 |
Lest anyone think I'm always down on Sudan, a story about one thing the country's done right: marriage. |
| White Pride |
4/27/07 |
A response of sorts to the complaint that someone isn't black enough. |
| Bloody Hands |
4/20/07 |
A Western response to current happenings. |
| Bone Children |
4/13/07 |
Author's Note: this is not a paedophillic edict, but a description of the offspring. Wear no panties, buy my waffles. That is all. |
| Extra-Marital |
4/06/07 |
Because you can't just have one. |
| Fifteen |
3/30/07 |
Cuba took thirteen days, Iran has 15 seconds. |
| Support |
3/23/07 |
We all support them in theory, but how well have we actually done? |
| Colossus |
3/16/07 |
A tribute to Lovecraft, and the terrible demons that plagued him. |
| A Fullton Life |
3/09/07 |
The second part of the series on vengeance and justice. What is the world coming to when Texas and Georgia are leading the way? |
| Stammheim |
3/02/07 |
The first part of a series on vengeance and justice. |
| A Child's Introduction to Terrorism |
2/23/07 |
Because it's time we were honest with our children. Ish. |
| Purgatory of Dreams |
2/14/07 |
It's not Friday, but it's Valentine's Day, and this story just wouldn't keep. |
| Theft at the Speed of Bureaucracy |
2/09/07 |
The wheels of the justice bus turn slowly. |
| Pirates in Space |
2/02/07 |
Because everyone needs their own Sealand. |
| Jahannam |
1/26/07 |
It's about time we talked about Baghdad. |
| A Life in Porn |
1/19/07 |
It's not what you think. |
| Last Rights |
1/12/07 |
A story about death with dignity. |
| Not-For-Profit |
1/5/07 |
First new story of the new year. And yes, it's a story about economics. |
| Heaven's Insurgence |
12/29/06 |
Do not open until 12/29. Or if you do, just consider it your Christmas present, since I'll be gone on vacation. |
| Christmas Blitzkrieg |
12/22/06 |
A story about viral warfare and specicide. |
| Conflict |
12/15/06 |
Of blood and diamonds and decaying romance. |
| Penis Envy |
12/08/06 |
A treatise on male reproductive rights, divorce law, and our strange fascination with endowments. |
| To Hide |
12/01/06 |
A story about political asylum and Hugo Chavez. |
| Two |
11/24/06 |
A Thanksgiving story about bastards. |
| Violent Extremists |
11/17/06 |
Reaction to the TASER incident at UCLA. |
| Azl |
11/10/06 |
A cautionary tale about Iraq, and pulling out too soon. |
| Vote fu |
11/03/06 |
After reading this story you will know kung fu, and have an insatiable desire to vote. With your fists. |
| democracyinaction |
10/27/06 |
A story about the ambitions of economics. |
| da'wa |
10/20/06 |
An incredibly late story about the Iranian situation. |
| PWI |
10/13/06 |
Some jobs are just too crazy to take while sober. |
| Bought & Sold |
10/06/06 |
There is a price. |
| Interrorgation |
09/29/06 |
There should always be limits. |
Church & State |
09/22/06 |
Life in a theocracy and how it ends. |
Quit |
09/15/06 |
Sometimes the hardest thing to stop is yourself (although I'm sure that sounds more contemplative than it is). |
| New Corpse Smell |
09/08/06 |
Because I can't say no when someone asks me to write about zombies. |
| Death Echoes |
09/01/06 |
A detective plagued by the dead. |
| INDUCEd Piracy |
08/25/06 |
A little ditty about the future of intellectual property rights. |
| Four Degrees Above Freezing |
08/18/06 |
Condensed detective story, and if the system eats my updates again I'm going to burn their servers to the ground. |
| Faith Emmanuel |
08/11/06 |
A man finds himself indebted to a hospital where human parts are considered more valuable than the whole. |
| BlindeDating |
08/04/06 |
A man is outmaneuevered by his cupid-playing aunt. |
| Amok |
07/29/06 |
A story about berserkers across cultures, and the last of the suicide month stories. |
| Suicides Don't Buy Groceries |
07/22/06 |
A sad sack realizes his own limitations; third of the suicide month stories. |
Vodka Revolver |
07/14/06 |
A moment in Russian life, probably near the end of it. |
Murder/Suicide |
07/07/06 |
Originally my reaction to a friend's suicide attempt. It kicked off a whole month of similar thinking. I agonized over the story, and while there are a few points I may not quite agree with anymore, it's still a story that gets to me. |
| Receding Aura |
06/30/06 |
Where science meets philosophy and shame. |
| A Mixed Diagnosis |
06/23/06 |
The meeting of the follies of romance and medicine. |
| Fire and the Grasshopper |
06/16/06 |
A fable about possibilities and the ancestral fear of flame. |
| Ax |
06/09/06 |
Beware the late-night shopping of others. |
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06/02/06 |
This week I originally posted the outline for X4; now I point you to the finished script here. |
| Black Thoughts |
05/26/06 |
Because sometimes we all need help cleaning the darkness out of our soul. |
| Strange Candy |
05/19/06 |
Sometimes sweetness comes in unexpected ways. |
| Sinai |
05/12/06 |
Asking the question may be the only reason to be. |
| Freedom of the Press |
05/05/06 |
A piece in honor of Press Freedom Day (May 3rd). |
| Hacked |
04/28/06 |
About the future of cybercrime and punishment |
| Finding Jesus |
04/21/06 |
Some people are willing to go farther for enlightenment than most. |
| Hickbots |
04/14/06 |
Sometimes science fiction needs to get a little dust on its boots. |
| ShelvesHalfEmpty |
04/07/06 |
A melancholy consumerist romance. |
| Carpet Remnants |
03/31/06 |
About the things we leave behind. |
| Waiting Room |
03/24/06 |
The end. |
| The Last Day of Me |
03/17/06 |
You never really know who you are until you don't. |
| Future Spirits |
03/10/06 |
Best enjoyed with red wine. Or white. Or rum. |
| Fingernails |
03/03/06 |
Posted out of order for comparison with the script based on this short story. The story contains a sexual assault, so reader discretion is advised. |
| Medicinal Lullaby |
02/24/06 |
One of my middle children, the queit piece, the calm one. Because it's night time, and I feel like whispering someone to sleep. |
| Something to Say |
02/17/06 |
The beginning of my love affair with forensic fiction, and the first Friday Night Story. |
