The Inverse Man – Part 6

July 25, 2023

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Part 1 Here Part 2 Here Part 3 Here Part 4 Here Part 5 Here Part 6 Here Part  7 Here 11 We returned to Brown’s Hotel. Holmes’s operatives reported that both Freud and Conan Doyle were still alive, although a bit worse for the wear. Holmes paid them all grandly and the three of […]

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The Inverse Man – Part 5

July 23, 2023

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Part 1 Here Part 2 Here Part 3 Here Part 4 Here Part 5 Here Part 6 Here Part  7 Here 10 Out of leads, on the seventh, we once again returned to the Green Man for dinner. Stevenson was chafing from his confinement, so after dinner we retired to the game room for billiards. […]

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The Inverse Man – Part 4

July 21, 2023

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Part 1 Here Part 2 Here Part 3 Here Part 4 Here Part 5 Here Part 6 Here Part  7 Here 8 “Sir, my apologies sir, you are needed again.” I sat up, albeit not quickly. I rubbed my hand along my jaw, the shave would wait. “Bring me a bowl of water, please.” I […]

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The Inverse Man- Part 2

July 20, 2023

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Part 1 Here Part 2 Here Part 3 Here Part 4 Here Part 5 Here Part 6 Here Part  7 Here 4 The next time I saw Holmes was the last day of the month. The moon was in its last quarter, and the streets wore funeral shrouds of dense and cold fog. I was […]

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The Inverse Man – Part 3

July 19, 2023

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Part 1 Here Part 2 Here Part 3 Here Part 4 Here Part 5 Here Part 6 Here Part  7 Here 6 At that moment, there was a loud knock at the door. We shot glances around the room. Holmes stood up and reached for the satchel, walked to the chimney in two long strides, […]

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The Inverse Man – Part 1

July 17, 2023

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I posted a teaser for this a few years ago, but never the whole story. Hopefully, I inspired you to buy the book. This story will be in a best of Mythos coming up. Author’s Forward When I was young, I spent two weeks in the hospital. This was a time when friends of my […]

Posted in: Fiction, Science Fiction, Writing, You Didn't Know Me Then

12th Anniversary Post

May 17, 2023

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This is a day early, but I won’t be around tomorrow. Besides I hit Publish instead of Preview. Happy St. Helens Day. The Old As always, I am remiss in not posting more frequently. Which is strange because I have 300 posts and 80 some odd drafts. I could publish a draft a week, easy. […]

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Storycrafting 13: Applying the Story Starter Worksheet to Forest God

May 16, 2023

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Getting ready for my blog’s anniversary, I stumbled across this piece. It’s done, so I might as well publish. It turns out, my Story Starter worksheet actually diagnosed a story I worked a long time on, but still hated. It is nice to know I produced a tool that works! Since this is a story […]

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Daniel Webster’s Ghost

March 27, 2023

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Is there any ground whose fruit was not once watered in blood? It turns out I published this in Hatchmag, but never put it here! Enjoy. I stood on the bridge over Punch Brook, watching a small barefoot boy who had fallen asleep in the sun, his line still in the water. There was a […]

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50 Fish, One $1.49 Fly

January 23, 2023

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Always simple. Sometimes lucky. When I got on the plane for the second time this year to handle a family emergency, I packed so fast that I forgot a few details like my necklace containing my forceps and tippets, but I did remember my waders, boots, and reels. Because I knew this was going to […]

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