Storyblogging Carnival LXXXIV
Welcome to the eighty-fourth Storyblogging Carnival. It took some begging on my part, but we have a ten stories this time, including some faces we haven't seen recently, as well as someone completely new. Plus, we have a few regulars as well. Please enjoy.
Fisherman
by Jeremiah Lewis of Fringe Blog
A 50 word brief story rated PG.
How catching fish is akin to life experience.
Brief Respite
by Jeremiah Lewis of Fringe Blog
A 50 word brief story rated PG.
A man struggles with his wife's departure.
How Future People Fly
by Jeremiah Lewis of Fringe Blog
A 50 word brief story rated PG.
Interstellar travel requires more than just numbers.
The Nudes
by Jeremiah Lewis of Fringe Blog
A 50 word brief story rated PG.
A man becomes aware of the beauty of women after he loses his sight.
The Office of Second Chances
by Donald S. Crankshaw of Back of the Envelope
A 226 word brief story rated PG.
Less a short story than a premise for one, this answers the question of what happens when the hero fails to save the world.
The Gathering of the Aetoi
by Brad of The Vega Mythos
An 800 word excerpt from a 16,000 word story in progress rated PG.
Vega Mythos is intended to be a contribution to the conspiracy theory genre. In the movie and novel Contact, Earth receives an extraterrestrial message from the star Vega. Shortly after seeing the movie I looked up the origin of the star's name. I thought it strange that Sagan chose a star whose name meant "The Falling Vulture". So I began playing around with the idea of there being something sinister about the star Vega. Thus Vega Mythos began. So far, The Vega Mythos has been an exercise in comparative religions for the most part. I haven't got around to addressing Contact, Sagan or wormholes just yet. It reads as nonfiction but the basic theme that ties the whole thing together is fictional, that is to say, it is a story. The excerpt I have submitted discusses the symbolism of vultures in the New Testement. Other chapters are listed to the left in a suggested order but it is a work in progress so it lacks continuity and completeness.
The Morning After
by D Kai Wilson of Avalon's Mistress
A 1,529 word short story rated PG.
Written when a friend asked me what morphine felt like, in second person.
Beasts
by D Kai Wilson of Avalon's Mistress
A 1,535 word excerpt from an continuing novel rated PG-13.
First chapter of a yet unnamed novel - talks about nuclear war and collecting material to record how the world once was.
The Pathfinder: A Parallel Roads Novel (Prologue and Chapter 1)
by Lyle Skains of Hermitville
A 2,700 word excerpt of a novel rated PG.
At almost 25,000 miles in circumference, the Earth is a hard thing to lose. But lose it exactly what Gloria Walker does in the culmination of the worst day of her life. She awakens to a strange new set of worlds, where anything is possible, and where she alone is responsible for all of them.
The Pathfinder: A Parallel Roads Novel is a science fiction/fantasy novel that tells the story of the one unique person in the universe who can travel between parallel dimensions without machines or magic.
Susheel's conflicted love relations are complicated by his flickering perception of reality.
An Arkham Welcome
by Andrew Ian Dodge of Dodgeblogium
A 5,138 word short story rated PG-13.
"It would be inaccurate to say that the Sage of Wales was pleased to be landing in Boston on this particular January morning. In fact, he would rather have been sitting on the opposite side of the ocean just passed over, reading by the fire, his dog Eden by his side. Alas, The Sage had been summoned by his Alma Mater to address them about some of his recent exploits in the study of and battle against Cthulhu."
This concludes the eighty-fourth Storyblogging Carnival.
If you'd like to take part in a future carnival, please contact me. I am also looking for hosts. Other carnivals can be found here.
The Storyblogging Carnival can be found at The Truth Laid Bear's ÜberCarnival.
Fisherman
by Jeremiah Lewis of Fringe Blog
A 50 word brief story rated PG.
How catching fish is akin to life experience.
Brief Respite
by Jeremiah Lewis of Fringe Blog
A 50 word brief story rated PG.
A man struggles with his wife's departure.
How Future People Fly
by Jeremiah Lewis of Fringe Blog
A 50 word brief story rated PG.
Interstellar travel requires more than just numbers.
The Nudes
by Jeremiah Lewis of Fringe Blog
A 50 word brief story rated PG.
A man becomes aware of the beauty of women after he loses his sight.
The Office of Second Chances
by Donald S. Crankshaw of Back of the Envelope
A 226 word brief story rated PG.
Less a short story than a premise for one, this answers the question of what happens when the hero fails to save the world.
The Gathering of the Aetoi
by Brad of The Vega Mythos
An 800 word excerpt from a 16,000 word story in progress rated PG.
Vega Mythos is intended to be a contribution to the conspiracy theory genre. In the movie and novel Contact, Earth receives an extraterrestrial message from the star Vega. Shortly after seeing the movie I looked up the origin of the star's name. I thought it strange that Sagan chose a star whose name meant "The Falling Vulture". So I began playing around with the idea of there being something sinister about the star Vega. Thus Vega Mythos began. So far, The Vega Mythos has been an exercise in comparative religions for the most part. I haven't got around to addressing Contact, Sagan or wormholes just yet. It reads as nonfiction but the basic theme that ties the whole thing together is fictional, that is to say, it is a story. The excerpt I have submitted discusses the symbolism of vultures in the New Testement. Other chapters are listed to the left in a suggested order but it is a work in progress so it lacks continuity and completeness.
The Morning After
by D Kai Wilson of Avalon's Mistress
A 1,529 word short story rated PG.
Written when a friend asked me what morphine felt like, in second person.
Beasts
by D Kai Wilson of Avalon's Mistress
A 1,535 word excerpt from an continuing novel rated PG-13.
First chapter of a yet unnamed novel - talks about nuclear war and collecting material to record how the world once was.
The Pathfinder: A Parallel Roads Novel (Prologue and Chapter 1)
by Lyle Skains of Hermitville
A 2,700 word excerpt of a novel rated PG.
At almost 25,000 miles in circumference, the Earth is a hard thing to lose. But lose it exactly what Gloria Walker does in the culmination of the worst day of her life. She awakens to a strange new set of worlds, where anything is possible, and where she alone is responsible for all of them.
The Pathfinder: A Parallel Roads Novel is a science fiction/fantasy novel that tells the story of the one unique person in the universe who can travel between parallel dimensions without machines or magic.
Susheel's conflicted love relations are complicated by his flickering perception of reality.
An Arkham Welcome
by Andrew Ian Dodge of Dodgeblogium
A 5,138 word short story rated PG-13.
"It would be inaccurate to say that the Sage of Wales was pleased to be landing in Boston on this particular January morning. In fact, he would rather have been sitting on the opposite side of the ocean just passed over, reading by the fire, his dog Eden by his side. Alas, The Sage had been summoned by his Alma Mater to address them about some of his recent exploits in the study of and battle against Cthulhu."
This concludes the eighty-fourth Storyblogging Carnival.
If you'd like to take part in a future carnival, please contact me. I am also looking for hosts. Other carnivals can be found here.
The Storyblogging Carnival can be found at The Truth Laid Bear's ÜberCarnival.
