The ideal writer is probably a former reporter for a big-city newspaper, like Michael Connelly or Linwood Barclay. Barring that, he is an English teacher like Stephen King was. The ideal writer works and lives with words. He is marinated in them on a daily basis over long periods of time. Words are the medium […]

The Domination of the Draka is a world story set in an alternate reality, and it could have come true. This is Fact #10. Imagine if the Canadians moved from North America to Africa and got mean. I mean, really mean. Slavery, impaled blacks dead on anus-sharpened sticks, lining the roads, whips, chains, the yoke. […]

Santa Claus injected the needle in his arm, containing heroin, sweet heroin, and closed his eyes tightly. The rubber stretch of wraparound-arm material was tight on his arm as he injected. Santa immediately dreamed of living in Panama, huddled on the beach under a warm tropical sun far from the North Pole. The elves were […]

The rain blurred the highway to streaks of red color and rainbow-hued markers. Once he reached the edge of the highway, he paused to catch his breath and survey his surroundings. The highway led north to the big city and met other highways along the way, though it was unchallenged in its preeminence. Other than […]

There’s Game. Which is a set of social tools for getting a girl to like you. What you’re basically doing is showing her that you don’t need her, that if you’re with her you’re with her voluntarily. She gets the tingles from that. But there’s something better. There’s male sexuality. The male is meant to […]

The best approach during times of volatility is to build yourself a kind of fortress. If the financial markets are unsettling you, invest in real estate and gold. If your family life is falling apart, make strong alliances with family members who see your point of view. Any fortress you build should have 4 qualities: […]

One of the most fun things about Game is that you get to play mind games on girls that are malicious in intent and heartless in an ethical sense. And so it is with Dread Game. Dread Game occurs when the girl likes you sufficiently that you can trigger her fear of you leaving her. […]

Colin McFadden worked late nights at the comic store. It was open 24 hours, because a significant portion of its clientele worked the night shift. Sometimes a security guard or a male nurse would come in during lunch hour, in the middle of the night, and buy a Batman or an Image Comics offering. One […]

In a world of magic and dragons, a red rover wandered the lands harvesting souls. He wore a brown cloak and hood. A sword was by his side but he never needed it — his soul-draining magic was power enough for him. No one ever saw his eyes. He kept his hood well down over […]

I’m tired of doubting myself. Tired of wondering if I’ve crossed the line on the latest post I’ve put up on Dark Sport. I recently wrote a post about abandoning poor friends because they live in a different world. I said let the poor die. I have been experiencing horrible gnawing doubts about whether I […]