Misawa Air Base, Japan. 1994. Nick’s dad has a fancy 486 computer running Windows 3.11, and instead of watching a movie with my friends, I’m hunched over its sunken monitor trying to figure out why Lieutenant Commander Data keeps warning me about a continuity error. I can’
Prompt: an exhausted Hispanic science fiction writer vaguely resembling literary heartthrob Daniel Verastiqui at his desk after he just finished the first draft of his new book titled House of Nepenthe. If you’re into numbers, the draft clocks in at 170,000+ words and 400+ pages. It took more
In a dorm room on the thirteenth floor of Jester West, a homemade immersion rig was whirring in the relative quiet. To his roommates, X appeared to be resting on his bed, reclined as if sleeping. Under that rig, behind those eyes, an entire world was spinning just for him.
Sugar, sparklers, and screaming. First day (night) of Spring Break in the books.
This is the face of a dog who does not know when to quit. Granted, it had been a long time since the last time she got to swim at the lake, but she absolutely would not stop. Not for water. Not for food. Not to chase the other dogs
For Readers
by Aiden Haefer | Banks Media Productions | 01.15.2035 There’s nothing special about the Plummer Tower on the corner of Fountain and Gardner in Hollywood, California. It has a modern design of black windows on a gray grid and stands fifty stories tall. From the outside, you wouldn’t
Books
I no longer have a bookshelf. I still have many of the same books, but now they’re all digital. Assuming my Kindle is charged, the Internet is working, and Amazon hasn’t recalled the book or closed my account, I can read almost any title I want at any
For Readers
I remember them all, you do not remember. This post was originally published July 1, 2013. The info may still be relevant, but who can say for sure? Jeff Winston was on the phone with his wife when he died. I was only nine or ten when I picked up
For My Writers
Last week, I read this great article about the Sally-Anne Experiment written by Esther Inglis-Arkell over at io9.com. In it, Inglis-Arkell describes the experiment and the effect it has had on modern psychology. Two characters, Sally and Anne, stand onstage. Sally has a basket. Anne has a box. On