Daniel Verastiqui - Science Fiction. Austin, Texas.

Writing

State of the WIP: All the Sexual Content We Left Behind

December 9, 20195 min read

As of 9:00 p.m. last night, I have completed principal writing on Vinestead Anthology book six, Brigham Plaza. It took about 11 months to finish the initial draft, rewrite several chapters, rewrite them again, and rewrite them once more until...

Essays

Elaine’s About to Die

December 5, 20194 min read

It's always awkward to join a new group. Worse, most adults experience this in a fitness setting: Camp Gladiator, Soul Cycle, Orange Theory, and the like. What do you say to people at six in the morning who just want to get in their workout and get...

General

So Your Parent Watches Fox News

November 27, 20195 min read

However it happens, however you find out, hearing the news that a parent is a loyal viewer of Fox News can be a shock to your system. Life as you know it will be forever changed, and it will fall to you, the level-headed son or well-adjusted...

Fitness

In Pursuit of Dad Bod: Four Fitness Options Compared

November 21, 201910 min read

It's not easy maintaining the perfect dad bod. You have to keep your arms and legs slim while eating enough carbs and sugar to let your stomach balloon out to a second trimester baby bump. You're already tired running around after your kid, and with...

Writing

You Can Have My Threesome When You Pry It From My Cold Dead Hands

November 6, 20194 min read

Soliciting feedback on a work in progress is a delicate dance. On the one hand, beta readers can point out huge holes in continuity that you can't see because you're too close to the project. On the other hand, they may claim your erotic dystopian...

Movies

Movie Review: Terminator Dark Fate

November 2, 20193 min read

You and I are a lot alike. We’re both gluttons for punishment. We keep putting ourselves in situations where we know we’re going to get hurt. And you want to know why? It’s because deep down, under all that ego and fake smiles, we...

Organizations

Cipher Dens

October 29, 20192 min read

From Xronixle Cipher dens sprang up in the large office buildings, taking advantage of the networking infrastructure already built in. They usually operated in teams of five or six, spending all of their time locked together in a converted meeting...

Technology

The Biochip

October 24, 20194 min read

A biochip is a small device embedded in the neck that interfaces with the host nervous system to provide biological monitoring and communication with digital networks.

Books

Book Review: Doctor Sleep by Stephen King

October 22, 20193 min read

With the exception of the opening scene, Doctor Sleep is not quite the scare fest I was expecting. As the author notes in his afterword, a different King wrote The Shining, and a different you is reading Doctor Sleep. Maybe that was why none of it...

Danny Guns Montreal

State of the Network 2009

October 17, 20198 min read

A collective groan filled Conference Room B in the Umbra Tower. Nearly 1,500 people had crammed into the 900-capacity room for a Q&A with leading tech players, and many of them stood in one of two snaking lines to the left and right of the main...

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