Mark Murata's Suburban Fantasy

Who really wrote the plays, sonnets, and poems attributed to William Shakespeare?  That question takes us on a romp through the lush world o...

An american scientist named  Kate Lloyd (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) joins a Norwegian team in Antarctica who have discovered some Thing, froz...

I’ve had this secret dream of traveling to Antarctica someday.  At a Worldcon, I heard a famous writer give a presentation on how he trave...

Did you know that Kevin Sorbo had three strokes while filming the series Hercules ?  It happened in 1997—blurry vision, dizziness, buzzing ...

(My encounter with professional writers, in the form of story archetypes.)      Call to action:  A herald in the form of a newspaper articl...

I went to the Issaquah Salmon Days today.  The city of Issaquah has a fine salmon hatchery, and though people can gather around this time o...

As many of you know, Amazon.com is competing with Groupon in offering online coupons.   I received one for botox, though I crossed the name ...

I wake up at 5:30 when my alarm goes off.  I allow myself to just lie there a few minutes.   When I next wake up, it's 6:50, which mea...

When I was much younger, a novella by the name of Transit appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine , and it blew my mind.  To go fas...