Seriously! I might feel guilty if it wasn't so fun. It's like the literary equivalent of taking off a doll's head. Even though I never took heads off dolls...
There is a "Netflix Original" tv series called Marco Polo. I'm a sucker for historical shows, especially if they feature martial arts. Since this show had both I couldn't resist! As a short story writer, I really love this day and age we live in with TV series. I love how so many of them now tell sprawling tales with complex character development serial style. This style of storytelling is something that short story readers have known about since forever but only now does it seem to really be hitting the mainstream media. Marco Polo took that serial style one step further by creating a spin off short film (about 30 minutes long) that told the backstory of one of the reoccurring side characters, One Hundred Eyes. In the series, One Hundred Eyes is the kick butt martial arts master. What makes him even more hard core is that he's blind. Nothing is cooler than a blind kung fu master who can hear the enemy coming from a mile awhile. The short spin off fil
Summary: "A mythology grew up around the Ferrymen, fostered by a mystique which they wrapped around themselves. Some thought them amoral servants of a ruling elite, sanctioned to undertake work beyond legitimate resolution; others with more fanciful imaginations – or who were more devout, depending on your point of view – believed them emissaries of Evil, with a capital E." Could the Ferrymen become real in your lifetime? Should they? Read this thoughtful and disturbing near-future science fiction story and decide for yourself. Review: This was a fantastic short story. "Well-written" doesn't even begin to describe Ferryman ; it's engrossing. The simple, clean style perfectly highlights our precise protagonist. If this future Edwards presents to us does in fact become a reality, the character he describes is exactly the type of person who would become a Ferryman: highly competent with the hint of a god complex. What's especially clever abou
Summary: She's a banshee screaming, sugar-starved monster, and her zookeeper has left you all alone with her. That's what's running through twenty-nine-year-old Henry Dalton's mind, when his five-year-old stepdaughter, Rebecca, enters the room and utters these fatal words. "Where's Mommy?" Review: This is a touching story about two people in need of love and forming an unlikely family. Henry Dalton, the protagonist, is your very typical bachelor that has absolutely no interest in having a family. He's just "a guy" that wants to date Rebecca's mom. The circumstances of Dalton taking on Rebecca as his charge border on unrealistic by how fast everything occurs. I felt like more time could have been spent exploring Rebecca's mother. It wouldn't necessarily change the result of the story but perhaps add more emotional depth to the events that follow. Still, the story has a good pace to it. I enjoyed seeing
Yes, I often set up the situtation and ask 'now, what is the worst thing that could happen?'
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