Michael's World (Blog)

Category: Fiction

  • How I Found a Pot of Gold: Chapter One: A Poopish Day

    I was walking along the road when suddenly a clover popped out at me and pooped on my face. I really hate it when that happens. Bit nasty if you ask me. Unless humans think differently. Then it’s delightful? Really not the most delightful and happy thing to me, especially if you’ve had a bad…

  • Heavenly Potato: Chapter 2

    Demex looked at the probe data again. It appeared that yet another star system had the right conditions for life. Unfortunately, this one appeared to be already inhabited with semi-intelligent life. The indications were there, showing that they had the ability to harness energy from heavy elements. They don’t appear to be very advanced though.…

  • How I Found a Pot of Gold: Introduction

    Hi. I’m Georgie the leprechaun. I am not a boy. Most leprechauns think I’m a boy. Maybe humans are smarter than leprechauns sometimes and don’t mistake me for a boy. I hope so. This story is complicated. I’m just warning you now before you read. Oh yeah. I’ll tell you about life here as a…

  • Monkey Fist

    I took a writing class last year. The class was about the habit of writing, rather than the craft of writing. As such, it had daily writing prompts and weekly discussions about our writing with various types of exercises to get you writing. One of the class assignments was to bring an inanimate object. I…

  • Heavenly Potato

    This is one of my earlier starts. I wrote this about the time that I first got excited about the idea of writing a {story|book|novel}. I had an idea that I wanted to work with, and I took a stab at getting started. Unfortunately, I submitted it to my wife and (eldest) daughter right after…

  • Excerpt: Escape of the AI

    This was a rough start of a story, that I started writing a while back.  Since I wrote this, I have figured out how badly this story starts.  Probably a good thing I didn’t finish, don’t you think? Ed was nervous. Today was an important day, but you wouldn’t know it to look at him.…

  • Tells and Engs

    Jilletta is a tell.  It is all that she has ever known or cared to do.   Yet she doesn’t always like her work.  She is good at her work.  She should be, since she is the daughter of the greatest tell ever.  Her father was considered to be at the apex of the art.  His…

  • 50% Evil – Revised

    I recently shared a draft of this short piece.  I generally have an optimistic view of the world, so I was endeavoring to write an ‘opposite’.  I had an idea that this might be a way to start a bit of satire. Perhaps, you can see the potential.  This is (I think) better than the…

  • 50% Evil (Part 1)

    What if 50% of the people you know were evil. I know social media and even news media make it seem like you should be scared of everyone, because evil is so rampant. But I know the truth. The Karulans are here, and they have been for centuries. They appear to be normal people but…