This being is called Karen. She travels on a cathedral of a star ship that cuts through black holes and circles quasars so close her ship should be smashed. I ignore the urge to tell her that her ship, while an astonishing piece of architecture, would never fly. This is … Continue reading
Monday, May 19 Today I was invited to participate in an online writing challenge. Two writers, one prompt, and ten days to deliver a short story. The prompt was a website with images of a man which appears in people’s dreams all over the world. When I clicked on the … Continue reading
CM Stewart is a science fiction and psychological horror writer. Only 1.7 million years late to be the first hominid to discover and use fire, she enjoys camping and poking things with sticks. Stewart lives in a trailer park in New Hampshire, 100 feet from a former Superfund site, where … Continue reading
This week we have Albert Berg facing off against Donald Uitvlugt in a head-to-head battle for the best short story in The Writer’s Arena. The results of this contest will be available to read next week. Now, arena spectators, we release onto the sands of our battlefield… Challenge #3: Like all … Continue reading
Caleb Newell is a full-time Whovian, a part-time brony and a computer science major in West Virginia. He enjoys peanut butter on his waffles and has a preference for women whose names rhyme with ‘banana a-ritz-a-bits tomb-sun’, and for swords made of diamond. His favorite algorithm is Quicksort, and his … Continue reading
