For My Lover Flash Fiction

For My Lover
By Mark Mika
Christ it was awful. The whole thing spinning into a chaotic crapfest; just like a bad movie you said later. I could have sworn I saw Murphy standing there by the reception table laughing his bad luck butt off.
First the rain; and it’s never a good sign when it rains. [...]

The Monster Within- Is Beowulf Killing Our Kids?

A cyber-friend writer friend of mine living in the U.K posted today her astonishment and general concern for the current movie Beowulf. Well, not the movie, just the rating it received from the powers in the U.K. I won’t repost her musings because, well, they’re not mine to post. She’s a great writer though, gushing [...]

I am Ernerst Hemingway

(Quiz Farm Tells Me So)
Of course there was no shock, no wash of relief poured over me when the news was finally made official, it was-to be honest- about god damn time.
I’ve known it ever since Francis Macomber came into my life. From the time Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley crashed together like [...]

misterlooneypants and disturbinglybored

I do my best to be a writer. The painfully slow and torturous process has wrapped me up and refuses to release. I try with all my might to stick to that and that alone. I am however, at the core, obsessed with the deviant, perverse and decadent which as a semi artist in training [...]

Thoughts On a Mid-Watch (twenty-years later)

Two decades ago I was a wide eyed kid in the Navy, and didn’t know my ass from a hole in the ground. Hell, I’d never been on an airplane before let alone a ship in the middle of the ocean. Three weeks after training I found myself in Spain where I met what would [...]