Mark Murata's Suburban Fantasy

Todd (Tom Holland) lives on a sparsely colonized planet. Some unique property of the planet allows the thoughts of men to be projected out l...

I usually do a good amount of writing at malls. It doesn’t always work out (see my entry on Mallrats ). But I write in malls because if I wr...

I’m a fan of Buffy the Vampire Slayer , and to a lesser extent, of Angel . (See my post “ What if Buffy had Never Been? ”) If you care about...

Zoe (Isabel May) is somewhat of an unusual high schooler, in that she’s comfortable handling guns because her father has taught her how to h...

My cell phone seemed to die recently. It just wouldn’t power on. I knew I hadn’t run the battery down too much, and even if I had, it should...

Barbara Shelley, an actress known for her statuesque beauty, passed away. Some of you may know her as Sorasta in some 1984 episodes of Docto...

Getting writing advice is a tricky thing. I hired a freelance editor to go over my fairy version of The War of the Worlds , tentatively call...

Last Saturday I went to Alderwood Mall in Lynnwood, north of Seattle. I was shocked to find the restaurants still open in the food court, bu...