Tales from FAR Manor

This is both my #FridayFlash and a teaser for my upcoming novella, Chasing a Rainbow . Like several of my longer stories, it started out as ...

Welcome to the chatter of a not-so-famous author (for now, heh heh)… Famous and other not-so-famous authors, and of course all readers, are ...

APPLE WANTS TO EAT YOUR COPYRIGHT! There has been a lot of sensationalist “reporting,” breathlessly repeated on Twitter, about the lice...

Here’s the last of my “one photo, three genres” series. I had originally planned a sci-fi piece to finish it up, but I just wasn’t feeling i...

True to my word, I let Chasing a Rainbow  sit for a week before looking it over. I printed it out and plunked myself down, pen in hand. Be...

As always, winter on Planet Georgia is confused: it’s warmest out when it’s cloudy. After a couple chilly nights during the week, temperat...

Here's the second of my “one photo, three genres” prompt. This one is horror. Feast That tiny bird I caught yesterday is long g...

As always, let’s start with a big FAR Manor welcome for the new blog followers: Thaddeus Howze — fantasy writer and computer technologist...

I set myself a challenge: write three different stories, each of a different genre, based on the same photo. The first one is a fantasy. ...

Oh look, two new followers to welcome! Chris Morton — a Taiwan-based writer who occasionally gets back home to the UK… Russell 1200 — ...

Everyone else is doing a New Year’s post, so I’ll do something different. Thursday night, Daughter Dearest and I were coming home from run...

I had a dream a couple weeks ago, and thought it would make an interesting story… Poltergeist Pranks I loved how the apartment smelled o...

Well, as smooth as anything ever goes around FAR Manor, anyway. There were no episodes of Daughter Dearest committing mayhem on Snippet, or ...

Previous episodes:  Part 1  •  Part 2  •  Part 3  •  Part 4  •  Part 5  •  Part 6  •  Part 7  •  Part 8  •  Part 9  •  Part 10 Xenocide...

My story this week is over at The Were-Traveler, part of the “Creepy Christmas” issue. Linkys: entire issue and my story .

Previous episodes:  Part 1  •  Part 2  •  Part 3  •  Part 4  •  Part 5  •  Part 6  •  Part 7  •  Part 8  •  Part 9 Xenocide, part 10 D...

I was trying to catch up on Twitter this afternoon, when I looked out the window and saw Big V cruising up the driveway in her power-chair. ...

Mrs. Fetched thinks I’m grinchy. Not so, I just prefer to focus on the social aspects of Christmas — family, feast, reflection — than to mak...

Work has a strange policy: they let you carry over two weeks of vacation per year. But everyone gets three weeks, plus a week of personal da...

I’m not sure about this one, so feel free to pound on it if you’re so inclined. To Begin With Source: Wikimedia Commons The Harle...