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• The Precarious Perch of Lookout County

  By Russ Linton on March 17, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  This story first appeared on the Wily Writers’ Podcast. It was an early story to see publication and had the added bonus of being read by a voice actor for the podcast! The theme, Weird Western, wasn’t a genre I’d ever read much of, but my fantasy/wild west mash up apparently met the editor’s expectations. Happy to share it here again on my site!

• Dribble Drabble

  By Russ Linton on March 4, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  A funny thing happened. If you recall, I posted one of my old stories which I won a contest with. Well, I won another one right after that…

• Grandpa in a Box

  By Russ Linton on February 23, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Believe it or not, I won an actual contest with this one…

• Tempest

  By Russ Linton on February 2, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  This week I scrapped a story that just wasn’t working. So, instead, I’m posting one of my previously sold stories as I clean up my “published” links…

• First Article of 2021 Accepted for Publication

  By Russ Linton on January 12, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  We’ve all had the same dumpster fire year. Bushwhacking through the chaos. But I’m back on the trail.

• Fiction as a Lifestyle Choice

  By Russ Linton on December 18, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  “I’m not strange, weird, off, nor crazy, my reality is just different from yours.” Everyone. Internet. 2020.

• How the Internet Became a Recursive Loop

  By Russ Linton on December 12, 2020 • ( 2 )

  

  We must disempower lifestyle vaporware and focus on the real world…

• The Truth Behind Conspiracy Theories

  By Russ Linton on November 16, 2020 • ( 2 )

  

  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….

• A Nomad’s Work is Never Done

  By Russ Linton on November 15, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  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.

• Grappling with the Past to Move into the Future

  By Russ Linton on November 13, 2020 • ( 2 )

  

  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…

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