Harry Carton: Blog

I've got the bones of an idea for a story, but there's no meat on the bones. So I'm turning to the wildest idea factory I know.

The story is, a lawman from 1850 gets sucked up in a tornado, in the Oklahoma panhandle. He gets deposited in 2020 and picked up by the District Attorney and a Cherokee woman. Who are a lesbian couple. Aside of gawking at the WalMart, what does he do for a living? I want to stay away from the obvious: he could be a 2020 sherrif or a P.I. or be a cowboy. So.... that's your challenge. Find him some way to make a living, and something that'll be a good story.

I recently came across this word in the latest chapter of A Better Man by G Younger. It's a good story of a young man growing up -- in many stories of which this is only the latest. Don't think you can start with anything but the first edition; you'll only get lost.

We have nothing to fear from AI. Herewith, proof that the internet contains no knowledge at all. And, by the way, a self-proving word that the term applies to the internet.

solipsistic -- Of, relating to, or being disposed to solipsism.

And, I DID have to look it up, for all the good it did me.

I'm not writing anything right now. [Because I've got 4 stories partly written and none of them are progressing. My muse as abandoned me. :-( ]

So I thought I drop off a couple of links to some stories of mine that are about 10 years old. They were both well received by the SOL reeders [both rated over 8].

They are:

95 A coming of age story about a special kid
https://storiesonline.net/s/76175/95

Las Vegas Fantasies An un-simple boy meets older woman story.
https://storiesonline.net/s/71193/las-vegas-fantasies

Feel free to ignore the shameless PLUG.
[Sorry I couldn't put in real links. I don't do html-ish.]

'Cause if I was perfect, I'd have just made my first mistake.

There was a mixup in the order of posting chapters in 'The Fuck You Announcement'

Chapter 14 as originally posted was really supposed to be posted as 16, after 15 and..... Oh the hell with it.

A NEW (to you, readers) Chapter 14 is now submitted and 14, 15 and the new chapter 16 (which you've seen before as the OLD 14). SO, if you want to see what you missed in the right order, check out chapter 14 after it is posted.

Then you can (re)read chapter 15 if you like. And 16 will be (re)posted in the correct sequence. And just for kicks, I'll be submiting chapter 17. If I can manage all that, THEN I'll be perfect.

I apologize for today's very short chapter. Sorry.
I got hooked on watching a movie, and when it was done, I wrote an even shorter short story. "The Window" which is posted today.