Monthly Archives: May 2014

Flash Fiction: Forbidden (100 words)

Posted on May 30, 2014 by epbeaumont

On Sarronny, we do not step on living plants. Long ago, the Academy at Karis built walkways over the ground. Their glass and silvery metal gleamed in the moons’-light. Martisset sprawled among the living plants, until she learned that was … Continue reading →

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 25 May 2014 (Character Interview: Inside the Jump)

Posted on May 25, 2014 by epbeaumont

A great advantage of being a sentient starship is that you never have to think about what to wear! I am arrayed in all the splendor of my great hull, my sensors, my Artificial Intelligences, my glorious power-plant, and my … Continue reading →

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Flash Fiction: Abacus Music

Posted on May 20, 2014 by epbeaumont

The one eyed high priest of the Temple of Mammon plays the invisible music of money on an abacus made of the bones of miscarried messiahs. The messiah was born in 1800. In 1812, she died of dehydration in the … Continue reading →

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Goals: Beyond Perfectionism (Upcoming Story Releases!)

Posted on May 20, 2014 by epbeaumont

A long time ago in a galaxy far far away, a job application asked me: What is your greatest strength? What is your greatest weakness? To the first question, I replied, “I’m willing to work extra hard for creative control.” … Continue reading →

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Weekend Writing Warriors: Sunday 18 May 2014 (Character Interview: Inside the Jump)

Posted on May 18, 2014 by epbeaumont

We live, we love, we inhabit this moment. And it doesn’t matter if you’re in a fleshly body or a cyborg larger than the whales of the Original World; those rhythms go on.  I dance in the solar winds of … Continue reading →

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Goals: And Things Change, Yet Again

Posted on May 17, 2014 by epbeaumont

Last night I came home from a satisfying day of running writing bouts with my colleagues, and decided to just chill and lift a glass in celebration of all the things I got done this week. Some of them — … Continue reading →

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Flash Fiction: Poetics

Posted on May 15, 2014 by epbeaumont

“Now is the time to crush the fruit / And brew the wine of memory.” Six years old, she stands before me, my doppelganger. She has recited the seventeen stanzas of the Poem on Deep Space better than I could have … Continue reading →

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Goals: Getting the Groove Back (Part 3) and the Positives of Form 1040A

Posted on May 14, 2014 by epbeaumont

As mentioned on yesterday’s blog post, this is the second year I filed my taxes after everybody else, and because this was the year I poured a lot of time and money into my writing business, putting together the spreadsheet … Continue reading →

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Dream casting for Ship’s Heart (Yasmin and Jehen)

Posted on May 13, 2014 by epbeaumont

I just realized that I do have a mental image for Jehen and Yasmin (currently children in the current chapter of Ship’s Heart, the beginning of a forty-year journey, to conclude in a detective/political thriller and an interstellar heist caper ). In my … Continue reading →

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Tuesday write-in and new Ship’s Heart excerpt!

Posted on May 13, 2014 by epbeaumont

Here I am out in White Bear Lake at Your Mom’s Basement, a gaming cafe where Tuesday nights see tournaments for Magic, the Gathering, among other tabletop and computer games. (Absolutely awesome for random snippets of arcana from someone else’s … Continue reading →

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