Author: oncefuture01

I guess this is my midlife crisis? Maybe I’m desperately trying to convince myself that I’m still hip, still with it, after working and falling into adult life. As a kid I had entire storylines for my Ninja Turtles and later I loved to collect Star Wars and Magic cards. A friend of mine pulled…

These robberies had been disappointingly easy, it wasn’t like in the movies. In the movies there’s always a big shoot out, the cops are there in an instant and everyone is very professional and competent.  That had not been Matt’s experience with the Ravens, once people saw the guns it was all over, people were…

I’m working on my Murikami fantastic realism with this one. I dig it but let me know what you think. As always AI free. BJJ For Lunch I remember going hard in high school, clubs, school, and sports, routinely going until 9 at night, Then I’d get up the next morning like a spring chicken.…

I am forever a child of the millennium. I still to this day fear my food processor starting to process me because of a Y2K documentary that young me saw. I have fond memories of the world before omnipresent technology and constant contact took over. Not to get too Boomer but I’ve heard it described…

They say to never judge a book by its cover but have you been in a book store lately? If I see one more cartoon cis het boy/girl doing a sport primary color monstrosity, well, I’m never far from becoming the Unibomber. Even my current publisher at Royal Road is terrible about AI covers. Over…

https://www.youtube.com/@Kingquill01 With “Permanent Nightshift” coming out this fall I am working on getting out there more. So in that vein, I will start doing a “write with me”/ “productivity hour” stream on youtube. The same anti-AI and human powered vibe but in a more personal setting. Come work with me Wednesdays and Fridays from 1000-1100…

I had one of those days where you had everything that you write, then it turned into one of those weeks. Okay, its actually still on going. I write a page and I hate it, I write a sentence and I go say “what idiot wrote this?” Me. I wrote it. It feels thin, without…

https://www.nodicenews.com/post/midwest-noice-what-resistance-looks-like-in-small-town-iowa This is the follow up to my article “I Do This Now so I Don’t Have to Hide a Family in My Attic Later.” Happy to work with No Dice News and you should absolutely give them a look.

Photo credit to @kevjustdraws https://www.kevdraws.com/new-page I came of age in an interesting time in America, graduating high school in 2004. We are like Tolkien’s elves that have seen the light of the two trees of Valinor, I can remember a world before the internet and even better a world before it could fit in your…

My dog is one of my best friends and now that we have a winter with snow, the husky in her demands more and longer walks. Since I’m not really working out in any meaningful way anymore this is a good thing for both of us, we both get to get outside and I usually…