Love Hustlers

I must feel a high degree of affinity for those folks at 48 Hour Magazine ’cause they got me excited about doing things I usually hate: Continue reading »

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An Unexpected Romance

So, this guy I’m stalking, er… following on twitter has started a site for “micro-tales of ash-cloud intrigue, romance, adventure, and/or ennui.” Really neat idea! Very interesting to see the variety of things people come up with – and a great (volcanic?) fire under my butt to try and knock off a Really Short Story.

Fun challenge, it was great to flex my uncoordinated fiction muscles. Here’s what I came up with:

http://ashcloudtales.tumblr.com/post/537297682/an-unexpected-romance

(and Mom, it’s erotic, but there’s no sex, I swear!!!)

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How the Semicolon Ruined my Sex Life

“It’s getting weirder,” my mother said about my web site the other day; one of my best critics, she doesn’t hesitate to tell me what she really thinks. Well, brace yourself mama, you ain’t seen nothing yet. I’ve started writing erotica (as a very legitimate exercise in writing development, I swear!). And no, I am NOT going to post it on the internet, you’re gonna have to go to a bookstore and buy this stuff the old fashioned way. The thing is, I think writing erotica may actually ruin my sex life. Continue reading »

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now hip with the twits

Lookie me! got myself a twitter account! A place to write down all those things that make me say: “Oh, I should write that down.” A less substantial, but more frequent, augment to this web site. Something for quick little ‘isms between posts.

Yep, I’m now hip with the twits…er, tweets. Maybe someday I’ll even get a microwave…or a cell phone. Heck, that’s just crazy talk. But, if you’ve got a cell phone, or an internet connection, you can check me out at:

http://twitter.com/vlrny

So, tweet me baby! Yep, I’m just that cool.

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