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I am the Sneezasaurus Rex, coo coo Ahh-CHOO

Screw allergies. When I go to the doctor and they ask “Do you have any allergies?”, I have to clamp my mouth shut. In my head, I scream, "YOU'RE GODDAMN ...

NerdArt Roundup! April 5, 2017

Looks like I'm moving to an every-other-week thing for the NerdArt Roundup. I'm okay with that, I think. One regular post per week, then either a flash fiction or a ...

Time Wounds All Heals

“Time.” “Time wounds all heals.“ For those who don’t know, that’s a quote from Farscape, one of my most-favoritest shows ever. The main character, John Crichton, says it to a ...

FlashFic: On The Blink

I wrote the initial concept for this during a writers' meeting a few years ago. The prompt was "Well, this is embarrassing." We were instructed to think on that sentence ...

Panic at the Death Star

Rogue One. By now, I’m sure you’ve heard every complaint about it. About Darth Vader’s rapid mobility decline from Rogue One to A New Hope. About the not-quite-perfect human CGI ...

Hurley’s Revolution

I just finished Kameron Hurley’s The Geek Feminist Revolution (TGFR). Like, just this morning I pulled into work as the last sixty seconds of the epilogue ran out on the ...

NerdArt Roundup! March 17, 2017

I skipped last week. Yeah, sorry about that. I’m going through some things in what I want to do here. Also, life kind of got busy for a while. But ...

Weekly NerdArt Picks | 3-3-2017

Time for another Weekly NerdArt Picks! I've realized that I'm shifting later in the week. Not necessarily because I've wanted too, rather work has been busy. I shouldn't expect that ...

Changing Atomic Spectra or Hiding from Interplanetary Interlopers

Well, this is interesting. This article just came across my feed this morning. Keep in mind, the ideas behind this are still VERY much theoretical. No one has even tested ...

FlashFic: Wally

There's something fun about using images as inspiration for these stories. This one is inspired by Lunch Break at the Workshop by Erik Taberman over at ArtStation, which was picked ...