A miscellany of random thoughts, geekery, reviews and other mysterious stuff careening around my addled brain.
This was one of my earliest publications with another disappeared venue, Writer’s Haven. I haven’t saved the best for last, more an indicator of how far I’ve come on this journey. This was a story inspired by a comment from my wife’s grandfather. Brief, slightly mysterious, it goes for a slow revelation I have yet to master. And if you squint real close, you’ll see Hurricane and Hound…
Thanks to the kind folks over at The Junction, my latest story has found a home…
“I’m not strange, weird, off, nor crazy, my reality is just different from yours.” Everyone. Internet. 2020.
We must disempower lifestyle vaporware and focus on the real world…
My first instinct was to dismiss his assertion much like I was emptying our RV black tank full of two weeks of excrement into the sewer….
Far from an inconvenient mess, the ordeals all become part of the adventure. New experiences, new places, new faces, a few risks along the way – that’s the life we’ve chosen, the nomad life.
When I set out to write Ace Grant, I wanted to create a wholly American mythology. It needed to reflect our history, not simply write another Western European transplant of faye courts and vikings. Magic existed here long before those cultures arrived. Our story then is one of a fusion of cultures amid a migration full of triumph and tragedy.
Complex, sure. But I knew one thing. The protagonists? They didn’t look like me…
Tragedy from a divided America.
Given the current political reality, it might seem impossible to change your perspective. I’m going to try…
I don’t care who you voted for. You are the one who matters, not them. One person will decide our country’s fate, but it isn’t either candidate. It’s you.
America changes when you do.
RUSS LINTON 