Month: August 2012

  • Book Review: THE RITUAL by Adam Nevill

    THE RITUAL is a book many folks should probably not read at night. If the deep dark forest frightens you, if evil in its most primitive form is beyond your comprehension — do not read this book. If you want an adult Grimm Fairy Tale, than read this. Regardless, a trip to the Nordic Arctic…

  • Free-Range Fiction: Dog-and-Pony Show

    Before he could get his lunch someone called for Attention. Those seated stood; those standing turned towards the sound of the command and assumed the position. In walked the post commander, the corps general, and Senator Joshua T. Williams (R-TX). Inside his head, Tinsley moaned an “Ah fuck.” He could smell the melted cheese which…

  • Free-Range Fiction: Dinner With Margaret

    Once again this installment of Free-Range Fiction is due to that Pennsly-‘Tuckian Boot in my arse. That boot comes in the form of a writing-prompt challenge regarding setting.  Here were the choices: In the middle of a prison riot. Chinatown during a hurricane. In the Martian suburbs celebrating the Red Planet’s independence. In a haunted…

  • Free-Range Fiction: I’ll Take Monday

    As my breathing slowed to something nearing a bus nap, my head was jerked forward, and a spray of iced mocha landed on my head, chest and lap. I looked up and saw the poor schlub whose paper coffee cup was now oscillating between my seat partner’s feet and mine. Sorry, he mouthed and shrugged.…

  • Rulin’s and Happiness: A Project in Improvement

    The best discovery of the book, for me at least, was that Rubin targets in on the fact that doing this created not a security, but the ability to potentially cope with problems. She wrote that it was truly wise to not “…wait for a crisis to remake your life.”