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HOWTO build a Tardis, the adorable German schoolteacher way – Boing Boing
HOWTO build a Tardis, the adorable German schoolteacher way – Boing Boing.
Ok, even if I wasn’t a fan of the Doctor this would be cool.
Star Wars Uncut: The Directors Cut | CmdrTaco.net
Star Wars Uncut: The Directors Cut | CmdrTaco.net.
If you haven’t heard of this it is really amazing what a hive can accomplish. This film is made of 15 second clips from fans and together manages to recreate the entire movie. Lots of extra funny.
Review – Locked In
Today I would like to review Locked In, the first book in Thea Gregory’s horror series, The Zombie Bedtime Stories. You can find her book on Smashwords as well as all of the major E-Book retailers.
This short story offers a fairly typical zombie apocalypse setting and begins at the first signs of infection. The main character is a new paramedic who then suffers through the disease. The story describes the onset of symptoms through to the death of the character in detail.
The beginning of the story did a pretty good job of grabbing your attention with an ambulance ride and a physical struggle. However, I didn’t feel the description of the diseases onset moved the story along with the same speed. I think the reader is quickly rewarded though when the character discovers their condition. The description of the rest of the story from inside the zombie’s point of view is fantastic.
I feel this story needed to be a little bit longer. It went too quickly by leaving out the mental anguish that was available but it is hard to say that it wouldn’t have actually slowed the action down too much. This is a judgment call that I would have probably made in the other direction. Besides this, I felt it was a very enjoyable read and would recommend that you give it a try.
One note, I have downloaded it in both a rich text format and the kindle mobi format. The RTF is full of formatting errors that do not exist in the other files.
As always, here is a little flash fiction to go along with the post. I decided to step up to the challenge of writing a vampire story for @MichelleHughes_ . I hope you all enjoy it.
L. E. White
Reunion
Her breath came in ragged gasps and shallow puffs as the pain in her side forced her to hold her arm across her middle. She tried to be quiet but it had been years since she had run and doing it now with the cane was impossible. At her age she wasn’t out of shape, she was just old and this was not how she had intended to spend her evening.
Her daughter Amber had taken her to dinner so that she could meet her grand-daughter’s new boyfriend. Amber had told her that he was an “Old fashioned boy with real manners.” Her heart had nearly stopped when she was introduced to Peter. He was indeed an old-fashioned boy. He had courted her nearly 50 years ago.
When their eyes had met he had stopped smiling. “Nana, I want you to meet Peter.” Her grand-daughter Amy had said. Then there had been an uncomfortable silence as the two young women realized that Peter was frowning and Nana Margret was staring at him with her jaw hanging open.
“Is it really you?” She had asked him. It couldn’t be; that wasn’t possible.
“Well, this puts quite an end to an otherwise enjoyable evening.” He had said. Then he had simply disappeared.
The ladies had left right after that, Margret trying to explain to her family that she had known him before meeting Allen, God rest his soul, and Amber telling her that it just couldn’t be the same man. “That was fifty years ago Mother.”
Then Peter had stepped out of the shadows and torn Amber’s throat out. Margret had stood frozen as he drained the life from her oldest daughter while Amy screamed. Peter’s hand shot out and grabbed Amy around the throat, silencing her screams so that Margret could hear him slurping on Amber’s neck.
She turned and ran as Peter dropped the body of her daughter on the ground before biting poor Amy. She struggled and punched but it didn’t do anything to the monster that Margret had once laid naked beside while counting stars above a meadow.
As Margret tried to catch her breath Peter stepped out of the shadows, blood covered from the meal that he had just made of her family.
“I wish I had known that Amy was your granddaughter.” Peter said, “I should have known, she had your eyes and she did the same thing in bed that you always did. I would have left her before now if I had known.”
“Why did you kill them?” Margret asked, “We couldn’t have hurt you.”
“You know what I am now.” He answered, “I can’t allow anyone to know.”
He stepped closer, sliding her purse out of the way with his foot and spilling its contents on the ground. He chuckled at the crossword puzzle book that still rested between her feet as he put his fingers into her hair and gently tilted her head to give him access to her throat. She remembered the last time he had done this, on a clear night under a harvest moon as she gave herself to him one last time before he left to visit his family. He had never returned and she had always wondered what had happened to him. He kissed her neck as he had that night, again sending her skin into a fury of goose-flesh before pulling away and opening his jaws wide, a soft comment to his fond memories of her before he took her life.
As his head started forward Margret dropped the cane and jabbed her crossword pencil into his side. The thin wooden rod slipped between his ribs and touched his aged heart. She couldn’t see his wide-eyed expression as multiple lifetimes flashed before his black eyes. All she could do was cry and cough as she slid down the wall in a cloud of dust.
5 Important Resources Needed to Promote an eBook | The Catalyst Partnership
5 Important Resources Needed to Promote an eBook | The Catalyst Partnership.
I got to do a guest blog for The Catalyst Partnership and I placed a new piece of fiction up with it. Thanks to Jorgen for working with me and to Triberr for allowing us to work together.
Calvin and Hobbes Comic Strip on GoComics.com
Calvin and Hobbes Comic Strip on GoComics.com.
Another example of Watterson’s genius. I wish he would start drawing again. This is great.
Skeptic » Podcasts » MonsterTalk » Episode Notes for Something Wiccan This Way Comes
Skeptic » Podcasts » MonsterTalk » Episode Notes for Something Wiccan This Way Comes.
Another entertaining show from MonsterTalk. Watch out for some of the puns though.
Ed’s Casual Friday: Everyone is a (one) Star. – Indies Unlimited
Ed’s Casual Friday: Everyone is a (one) Star. – Indies Unlimited.
Wow, this really makes me re-think any negative reviews I might receive. Some of these are just spectacular.
xkcd: Sloppier Than Fiction
Funnier since I was just reading about character development yesterday.
Anyone for a drink?
I like to drink a little bit every now and then. A glass of wine or a beer on any given night is great. The problem I have is that I want to find things that I like and I am to much of a cheap skate to be comfortable in trying the new things. I am usually all about giving new food a try but for some reason a bottle of wine that I might not like bothers me. I admit it is a little neurotic but that is just one of my quirks.
So, to help alleviate this, my wife and I decided to go to the local winery for our anniversary and take the tour. This included a lot of education on the wine making process and a tasting.
If you haven’t done this, you should. Make plans to go do it. This was one of the best afternoon’s that we have ever spent out that was just the two of us. I highly recommend giving it a try.
While we were there learning why the age the wine in oak barrels and which wines we do and don’t like we discovered Ice Wine.
The world will never be the same.
Ice wine originated from Germany (Eiswine). This wine is pressed from frozen grapes and seems to only provide about a drop of juice per grape. It is also one of the finest and tastiest things I think I have ever drunk.
Word of warning, this is, in my opinion, expensive compared to the other wines I have drunk but it is still the best. Search around and you can find the type and price that will work for you.
I need to find beta readers and to build a critique group in the Bloomington or Terre Haute areas of Indiana. If you are interested leave me a comment and I will get in touch with you.
I decided to change things up just a little so I wrote some poetry for this week’s post. I hope you like it and I would love to hear your comments on it.
L. E. White
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the crawling shadow
of another day and age
stalking sanity
———-
inspiring sounds
incomprehensible fear
approaching slowly
———-
your breath comes faster
you heart begin to stutter
as you feel its gaze
———-
like a pouncing cat
muscles begin to prepare
your fight or flight drive
———-
there is no escape
from an ancient predator
just outside of time
———-
you cannot see it
but you can hear it growling
a rumbling hunger
———-
the sting really hurt
but not as much as the bite
or being eaten
Forever
The Sirens Call
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