2010 Weekly Shorts
Ray Bradbury once said, You can’t write 52 bad stories in a row. Or maybe he didn’t, but this idea has been attributed to him more than anyone else.
Whoever said it, I decided to give it a shot back in 2010.
I posted these stories publicly to keep myself honest, since I was certain to have off weeks when I’d want to throw in the towel. Believe me, there were many of those weeks, waiting until the night before to force myself to sit down in front of a blank page and hammer something out.
Here they are, in the order they appeared on the blog, every last story no matter how good, bad, or ugly.
- Rush Ch 1 : We Smile
- Rush Ch 2 : Hello, Rush
- Rush Ch 3 : We Dance
- Rush Ch 4 : Rush Home
- Rush Ch 5 : We Slip Away
- Rush : Ch 6 : We Connect
- Toast and Jam
- The Stars at Night
- Needles Part I
- Needles Part II
- Around Her Neck Like a Scarf (Now revised and published)
- Better Places Part I
- Better Places Part II
- The Mother-Fucking Scientist
- The Liberation of Edward Kellor (Now revised and published)
- The Special (Now revised and published)
- Empty Bottles
- Orange Rind
- All The Black Birds Look The Same
- Latakia (Now revised and published)
- The Case Part I
- Clocks
- The Dance
- Wet Roads Glisten
- The Red Baron
- Five Million Dollars
- Hey Man, Nice Shot
- Tri Tip Sandwich (Follow up to The Special)
- Unassembled
- I Need Pills To Stay Alive
- Ten Cents (Follow up to Empty Bottles)
- A Long Shadow Stretches Across the Sand
- Flies and Blue Skies
- Flies and Blue Skies Part II
- Flies and Blue Skies Part III
- Flies and Blue Skies Part IV
- Life is Shit Part I
- I Do Miss The Rain
- Life is Shit Part II
- Life is Shit Part III
- Hula Girls
- Life is Shit Part IV
- Life is Shit Part V
- Mouth
- Cold Hands Part I
- The Cowboy
- Subsistence
- Fathers
- Salvador’s Mother (Follow up to Ten Cents)
- Cold Hands Part II
- The Case Part II
- G.O.D., LLC
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