Due to POPULAR DEMAND, May’s free eBook giveaway is now available for purchase via Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble! A lot of people downloaded Cahill’s Homecoming and then started telling other people, prompting them to head out to Amazon looking for it, so I had to scramble to get the book out there where...
“Are you on a diet or something?” This question came about because the group was reading a little scifi I’d written wherein the characters were (GASP!), eating. One character had lunch (a turkey sandwich, light mayo). Next, he had dinner with a friend: Dinner turned out to be a Mexican Sushi place in one...
So, I was on Twitter today, when I saw this: Which led me to ACCEPT THE CHALLENGE (I know, there really wasn’t a challenge) and come up with SOME SORT OF STORY using song lyrics for dialogue. Here it is: (this includes lyrics from popular songs, all rights belong to the copyright holders and...
Untitled Sword & Sorcery Short Story Length: 4,591 Draft: 1st Draft, no edits by: Patrick Hester © 2011 All Rights Reserved The Witch King, bored, called upon the demi-god Utesh, for inspiration. A hundred bodies littered the ground below the sheer cliff wall of the castle, their life’s blood still warm in the throne...
So, I recently shared with you guys an excerpt from a WIP – an untitled space opera. It was from one characters point of view – the story itself has multiple characters so we can see a lot of different pov’s. Today, I wanted to share one of those with you. Ulysses Sean Starker...
This one has been bouncing around in my head for quiet some time. I work a little on it now and then when the mood strikes me. It’s a complicated piece. This week, after complaining that I hadn’t been very productive, I found myself working on this again and really getting into it so...
Keeping up with the ‘short story a week’ goal I have set for myself, I decided to revisit a piece of Flash Fiction I wrote a while ago called ‘Welcome to Solar City‘. To this day, it’s one of my favorite pieces and I wanted to expand it a little, delve deeper. I’m calling...
I said I was gonna write a short story a week and one week in, I’m 1 for 1! I even sent it around for some feedback (Thanks to everyone who got back to me – I really appreciate it!!). For now, I wanted to share a little of the story with you folks. ...
So – I had some time to myself when I got to Milwaukee for my connecting flight. I found myself noting that the concourse / terminal itself was incredibly drab and depressing. The color scheme was all gray and faded blacks in odd patterns that were probably eye catching twenty or more years ago. ...
One day I was sitting here and I thought, we need more cowboys in space. This lead me to sit down at the computer and start writing. The result was originally called ‘The Brothers of Katie Rose’; an homage to the classic western flick, ‘The Sons of Katie Elder’, but then I changed it...
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Patrick Hester is an author, blogger and Hugo Nominated Podcast Producer/Host who lives in Colorado and writes science fiction and fantasy (mostly)...[click to read more]
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