On the Fringe
Tonight is lost–or, rather, Lost. A total immersion in one of my favorite television experiences. They’re hosting a big public viewing at a place downtown, with Houston Chronicle bloggers and big screens, but I think I’m going to be the introvert that I am and stay home and watch it by myself. For some reason, [...]
Shower scenes
House spoilers follow. Two nights in a row, programs have resorted to the “it was all a dream” explanation for something. On Sunday, it was Cold Case. Last night it was House. There had been many comments about the unlikelihood of a 12-hour detox program for a years-long vicodin addiction, but television programs are rarely [...]
The obligatory CI episode
I spent some of the weekend working on an essay that’s part of a non-fiction project I’m participating in. My task consists of four essays, two at 1000 words and two at 500. I’ve already done one of the short pieces, but that was many months ago, and I’ve put this on the back burner [...]
Beam Me Up
I am old enough to remember Star Trek during its first run, but only barely. I really came into the original series when I went to university and lived in a dorm. The show aired in reruns every Saturday afternoon, and it became a tradition to go into the TV lounge and watch it as [...]
Channeling Agatha
My short story Ten Little Phobias just went up at Afterburn SF for your reading pleasure. It’s a science fictional riff on a classic Agatha Christie setup. Agatha Christie was among the first adult novelists I read as a teenager, and I consumed her novels like potato chips. It has been many years since I’ve [...]
No gold star
Nice try with the CGI submarine effect on Lost last night. Not quite a gold star effort, but an E for effort. I found myself concentrating on the way the ripples the sub generated didn’t interact with the normal tide waves more than anything else. It was a rollicking episode, all in all. The scene [...]
Without a trace of Romeo
I decided to give myself a morning off from writing. I do that every now and then, especially after I’ve completed a project. With the short story written, revised, edited, submitted and re-revised, I figure it was a job well done. The funny thing, though, is that getting an extra 90 minutes of sleep made [...]
Detox Mansion
Well, that has to set the record for the fastest drug detox program on record. Who knew that all you had to do was sit on the floor of the bathroom for 24 hours, suffer the dry heaves for a while and boom, just like that, a years-long Vicodin addict is in recovery. I’m talking, [...]
Fourth place via the outhouse
Of course, you can’t fault someone for answering mother nature’s call when it comes so insistently, especially after guzzling several bottles of water to wash down various disgusting foodstuffs. However, the decision to take a pee break cost that team a decent shot at $1 million on The Amazing Race, and put the redheads back in [...]
Mayday
This morning I finished the first draft of the short story I’ve been working on for the past week. Came in at 5500 words, which is over the limit, but a good place to start for revisions. I routinely strip away at least 10% of most manuscripts on the first editing pass. I “wrote” most of [...]
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Bev Vincent is the author of The Road to the Dark Tower, the Bram Stoker Award nominated companion to Stephen King's Dark Tower series, and The Stephen King Illustrated Companion, which was nominated for a 2010 Edgar® Award and a 2009 Bram Stoker Award.
His short fiction has appeared in places like Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, From the Borderlands and The Blue Religion. He is a contributing editor with Cemetery Dance magazine and a member of the Storytellers Unplugged blogging community. He also writes book reviews for Onyx Reviews.
