Mark Murata's Suburban Fantasy

Stephen Hawking recently passed away. I’ll repeat below my post from 2014 , then add a comment. __________________________ Stephen H...

First, Elon Musk came up with easy-to-use flamethrowers.   photo by Nike Scream  Okay, she doesn’t work for Elon Musk, but...

I don’t normally make it all the way though a YA novel. Partly it’s because of the lack of detail in the scene descriptions compared to a ...

Yesterday, I submitted a mashed-up fairy tale short story that I first wrote in 2006 to an online magazine. Today, I submitted a science...

On my way to church and back, I saw four cars pulled over by the police. They were obviously out in force, looking for anyone who started t...

Here’s my latest book purge: three hardcovers and nine paperbacks. These just didn’t turn out to be as interesting as I thought they would....

In my dream, I was looking around in my parents’ living room for an issue of MAD Magazine that had something important in it. This was the ...

So there’s this story out there called Pride and Prejudice . It has four acts: Mrs. Bennet tries to foist one of her daughters on a rich gu...

The Federal Aviation Administration doesn’t like large amounts of lithium batteries in cargo holds of airplanes. Watch what happens at 1:03...