I liked watching the planes fly. They just seemed so magical, like they were suspended by wires nobody could see, even though I knew the magic was called "physics." At first I imagined them held up by the wires, then held down by the wires, like their natural expression was to be set free, to… Continue reading Fiction: Unmoored
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Rating Movies
My youngest son and I watched "Godzilla" last night. As a movie, it was a fun experience, I guess - giant monsters! Destruction! Catchy one-liners! Woo! - but I struggled to watch the movie. I struggled because there were things that just didn't make sense, even in the context of the movie itself. There's an… Continue reading Rating Movies
About “Two Wishes”
This is a post of liner notes, sort of, about "Two Wishes," a story I posted a couple of months ago. I normally enjoy such author's notes myself, but I also understand that they sometimes erode what magic a story has, so I wanted to keep these in a separate post. "Two Wishes" is basically… Continue reading About “Two Wishes”
Fiction: Two Wishes
I have lived two lives. In my first life, when I was old, I wandered through a shop of antiques looking for a lampstand. My cat had finally knocked over my wife's light; it was a gift for her from years before, given by one of my sons, and while I couldn't repair or replace… Continue reading Fiction: Two Wishes
