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The Big Chill

I remember seeing this movie when I was a 20-something working like a dog at my career and trying to hang onto some friends from school while desperately pursuing and advanced degree in carnal knowledge. (Hey, most of us do at some point but few admit it.) I remember watching…

Roland HughesAugust 9, 2017August 8, 2017

Fiction Flash Fiction Stories Uncategorized

Tuesday’s Five Minute Flash Fiction #3: Prompt – “Graveyard”

Graveyard “I don’t want to go in there. Cemeteries creep me out,” said Michael “It’s a graveyard, not a cemetery. Come on. It’s just a short-cut and you’ll see it might even be interesting.” Heather led hear boyfriend through the iron gate of the graveyard adjacent to the ancient village…

Gregory LambAugust 8, 2017August 2, 2017

Experience Publishing Stories Technology Thank You Sir May I Have Another

Killing Patients Wholesale

As a writer you are faced with many dilemmas. The most paralytic of these is “where to start a story?” Pen names have existed for ages, so as long as you never put a picture of yourself on your work, few will know it is you. A metropolis sized sewer…

Roland HughesAugust 7, 2017August 6, 2017

Experience Technology Thank You Sir May I Have Another

Getting Justification and Underscore in WordPress

Most of the time I create a rough draft of my posts on here using FocusWriter or KWrite. There was a brief and horrible period where I tried to use jEdit which is quite possibly the second largest pig of an editor in the world. It definitely has the worst…

Roland HughesAugust 6, 2017October 28, 2020

Experience Thank You Sir May I Have Another

I’m Writing a Book

At some point we have all heard someone make that claim. Before we were writers ourselves we probably thought and sometimes even said “Yeah right! You’re sitting around watching Oprah and playing video games, unemployed again.” Admit it. When most people tell you they are writing a book, even if…

Roland HughesAugust 5, 2017August 2, 2017

Experience Society Thank You Sir May I Have Another

The Statue of Liberty Poem

Today on NPR I heard a story about the current brew-ha-ha involving immigration policy and the Statue of Liberty. Long before this current heated conversation I wrote a book which had this poem, The New Colossus, as its central theme. Here is a short excerpt. “I still can’t see where…

Roland HughesAugust 3, 2017