Mark Murata's Suburban Fantasy

I really liked John Hurt. He was so convincing as Winston Smith getting tortured inside the Ministry of Love in 1984 , I was always surpris...

In late August, I sent my vampire parody to a major agent I had pitched to at a writers conference. That was the Pacific Northwest Writers ...

Kat Falcone is only twenty-nine but looks nineteen thanks to her flawless genes, and she is suddenly promoted to captain of a heavy cruiser...

The Barnes & Noble at the Crossroads Mall in Bellevue, WA, where I spent many an hour, closed on December 31. What hit me w...

If you read my previous post , you’ll know that a little girl was talking to the Alexa feature of Amazon’s Echo Dot, and the next thing you...

A six-year-old girl in Texas was delighted when the family received an Echo Dot for a holiday gift. It features Alexa, the digital assistan...

Suppose you were on a voyage to a colony on another planet, and you’re in one of those sleep chambers. Then you wake up, recover from years...

I remember reading as a teen a very detailed newspaper article on how the date of December 25 as the birthday of Christ was a Medieval trad...

Here is a lovely bell choir that was playing Christmas music at a mall. Along with the normal size bells, there was one in the center about...