I have a confession to make. I follow John Green around. I follow his Tumblr. I follow his Twitter. I subscribe to his YouTube channels CrashCourse, MentalFloss and Vlogbrothers. I do this because I believe him to be extremely intelligent and insightful. I deeply admire his goal to, as he puts it, “decrease worldsuck” through… Continue reading Book Review: The Fault In Our Stars
Tag: romance
Free Fiction: Miss Weaver's Lo Mein
Since this week’s Terribleminds flash fiction was a single sentence, and my weekend was too jam-packed to make use of Brainstormer, I dug around and found an as-yet unpublished work of fiction. This is in the tradition of most of my other free fiction, in that it reworks an old tale in a new way.… Continue reading Free Fiction: Miss Weaver's Lo Mein
Flash Fiction: Hart's Office
The Terribleminds Revenge of the Sub-Genre Mash-Up made me do it. “Ms. Hart? There’s a Detective Dyson here to see you, ma’am.” It would take the visitor 45 seconds at a regular pace to reach her office door. She had plenty of time to prepare. “Send him back, Sandy.” Dyson was an ex-cop, according to… Continue reading Flash Fiction: Hart's Office
IT CAME FROM NETFLIX! Killers
[audio:http://www.blueinkalchemy.com/uploads/killers.mp3] We mix things up all the time. Mix some leftover pasta, meat, sauce and veggies together and you get goulash. Throw some tequila and frozen fruit in a blender, and you get margaritas! It’s similar with fiction. Genres mix all the time. Action is mixed with comedy and comedy with romance. You might even… Continue reading IT CAME FROM NETFLIX! Killers
Free Fiction: Miss Weaver's Lo Mein
Okay, I’m going to be honest. This isn’t likely to be my best story ever. I haven’t been editing as thoroughly as I could have over the weekend, which makes this essentially a first draft. And as Hemingway put it, “The first draft of anything is shit.” So it’ll probably be better when it gets… Continue reading Free Fiction: Miss Weaver's Lo Mein
IT CAME FROM NETFLIX! Amélie
[audio:http://www.blueinkalchemy.com/uploads/amelie.mp3] If one were to look up ‘charming’ in the dictionary, the definition would read something like this: 1. pleasing; delightful. 2. using charm; exercising magic power. Of course, that’s an English dictionary. If one were to look up ‘charming’ in a French dictionary, I imagine you would likely see a picture of Audrey Tautou… Continue reading IT CAME FROM NETFLIX! Amélie
IT CAME FROM NETFLIX! Brokeback Mountain
[audio:http://www.blueinkalchemy.com/uploads/brokeback.mp3] Here’s a fun fact you might not have known about me. I grew up in house full of women. It was my mother and my two sisters, and when I was a young boy my grandmother moved in with us as well. Being surrounded by women, it’s probably no surprised I was exposed to… Continue reading IT CAME FROM NETFLIX! Brokeback Mountain
