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May 2025

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 It's the last day of May, and I almost missed the monthly update, which lately seems to be the only place I have been getting any writing in. Still counts as writing, though. It's been a busy month with lots of things going on. When you have a kid in school, a lot happens at the end of the school year. Especially when that kid is awesome.  So here's the rundown. Movies (basically my Letterboxd): Oddity: a couple of jump scares and an interesting premise. I was thinking it was going to be a bit more like Friday the 13th - the series or Warehouse 13. Where a team of antique collectors hunt down cursed items. So a little let down. Still liked it though.  Friday the 13th: The Series - Season 1: I hunted this down after Oddity turned out to be different from what I was hoping for from the premise. I figured I would go to the source. I could only find it on YouTube, and the quality is terrible, but it was a show from the 80s. The bad quality of the upload matched my memory of ...
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April 2025

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It has been a cold, rainy, and snowy April in Maine. Just dark, dark, dark. We've needed house lights on and a fire almost every day for the first two weeks because the sun has not been around to warm things up. You'd think that would make me more productive in my writing, but guess what? Not really. I watched season 3 of Yellowjackets because what is more horrific than crashing a plane in the middle of nowhere with a thing that maybe or maybe not exist and requires the occasional blood sacrifice, and you and your friends have to decide who that is and then eat them - Quality Television. It was interesting to see them bring it back to the pilot from season 1. It's a good spot if they want to end it, but it also left open a bit if they want to run it for another season or two.  As for horror movies, I did watch 'In a Violent Nature'. It's basically a nature film, following our slasher protagonist walking around in the forest and doing slasher horror movie things....
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March 2025

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  It's the end of March, and I managed to spend a little time editing a story to an ok point, so I'm adding a story along with a monthly update.  The story is called The Last Automator. I was thinking about how difficult it must be for science fiction and futurist writers who try to envision new technologies and incorporate them into their stories. Then, depending on how far into the future their story is set, you have to get it published quickly. That technology could show up, or a newer technology could show up that's better than what you envisioned, making the story a little weird.  The story is one of those. I wrote it in 2022 when robot process automation was all over the news. Then I sat on it for a year, and all the large language models started coming out, and that was it. My first sci-fi/futurist story is a little late to the game. I still like the story, and it's still worth a read, but I have massive respect for the dedicated science fiction writers racing to...
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