• Short Stories

    For the Well-Dwellers

    Hyun knelt on the grass and reached his arm deep into the hole. “Hello,” he whispered, “Can you hear me?” He was sure they were just out of reach, that if only he stretched that bit further he might touch them. First his left leg stretched back, then the other. Soon he was prone, shoulders by his ears and both arms buried in the darkness. The dew soaked into his cotton shirt and stabbed his chest like little dots of ice. But he was more concerned that the cover of morning mist had already slid into the valley below and left him exposed. “Hello? I can hear you, can you…

  • Writing

    Fail to Plan, Plan to Fa…. Be Yourself

    Sure, at the start of this blogging romance it was all exciting, fresh, and new. Oh and so much advice, so many people telling me what I should and shouldn’t do, backed with empirical evidence and flow charts and graphs, click meters and algorithms. Yes! I could commit to a social media plan with full responsibility – if you’re doing it, you’d better do it right dammit! Off I went to Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, and I blogged. Oh yeah, and among all that I was writing a novel. And Life happened; as it is wont to do… Learning to walk again makes you think about a lot important things. Things like foundations and forward momentum. My most…