Tales from FAR Manor

Angela Perry has a little writing contest going: write a flash piece using the prompt “Immortal.” Here’s my shot at it. Immortal Curse ...

You might think that being in my 50s, I’d be one of those “I love the look/feel/smell of paper” people (really? smell? really??? ), but I’ve...

One of the cool parts of serializing a novel on one's blog is being able to post deleted and alternate scenes. I had several of those fo...

Our tax refund was pretty large… and so begins a new project at FAR Manor. Like many projects, this is one I had in mind for a good long whi...

I know this kind of story has been done… dare I say, done to death? But I liked it anyway. It’s pretty short — less than 300 words — but a s...

While Amazon is the primary source of eBooks for most Kindle owners, there are other sources out there: Smashwords  and Project Gutenberg , ...

Wow, I haven’t done one of these in a few weeks. It’s been the usual crazy here, I suppose that will have to serve as an excuse. In fact, I’...

I came home Saturday evening from dropping M.A.E. off at her work (Burger King). Mason was stumping around on the floor, looking at his feet...

“That should do it.” Rick said. “Tighten it down and we’ll check the alignment.” I did as Rick said, grabbing a socket wrench out of the t...

Mason puts just about anything in his mouth, and sometimes I wonder what he finds… Packaging Design Trials on adults have proven unsatis...

Mrs. Fetched is not at the manor tonight. FINALLY , I get to catch up on blog stuff! Saturday was one of those weekend days I’m not terrib...

Do you know how to deal with witches? I’m talking about the traditional looking ones, like in fairy tales, with pointed hats, crooked teeth ...

What a long strange trip it’s been… and it’s only half-over. Wednesday, March 14, 2012 Johnny fed the end of the pipe through the fence...

And we come to the conclusion. I hope you enjoy it as much as you have the rest — and if you’ve just found it, you can start with Part 1 . W...

I took Mason out for a little walk this afternoon and shot up a few things I’ve been meaning to shoot. But first, the weekly shout to the ne...

Sunday, March 11, 2012 “Check this out!” Cody said, dropping a newspaper on the table. “How did we all miss this?” Tina looked at the he...

Around 15 years ago, I wrote the story that would become the heart of this episode on a Tandy 600 laptop. It might be on a floppy somewhere ...

I’m going to get this done. It might be Thursday when it posts, but I’m going to get this done. First, the weekly welcome to the free-rang...

Thursday, March 8, 2012 They called it The Great Critter Roundup, and people laughed no matter how many times they heard about it. With th...