Tom Rinne dreamt of ruins underwater. He looked up with wide eyes and saw something Byzantine, a tiled room, a mausoleum. He lay on the floor feeling the tiles on the points of his back and wondering if he was breathing or if he’d drowned. Blue light lapped around the walls until he slowly understood [...]
Machine City :: Chapter 1
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© Jack Howland :: All Rights Reserved :: January 19, 2012 in Mystery, Thrillers & Crime, Novels
Happy? :: Chapter 2
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© Jack Howland :: All Rights Reserved :: January 19, 2012 in Contemporary Fiction, Novels
THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 1999 8:27 PM, Heatherton Hills Private Sanatorium He licks his lips. He sets his glass on the reading table, and as he does so he says, GIANNI: “Do you love my daughter, Will?” ME: “Gianni, I absolutely …” GIANNI: “Do you know what love is?” Actually, let me backtrack a little. You [...]
Until They Are Home- the first third
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© James Mellis :: All Rights Reserved :: January 28, 2012 in Mystery, Thrillers & Crime, Novels
Until They Are Home Part One: Stranger in a Strange Land 60,000 feet above the Ural Mountains- 1958 Flying 62,000 feet above the earth, Captain Tom Thorne felt like a god. A restrained god, he thought, shifting uncomfortably in his pressurized suit. He felt he could see everything, and what he couldn’t see, the camera [...]
The Pretty Pink Princess Guide to Statecraft and World Domination – Introduction
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© Rachel Sussman :: All Rights Reserved :: April 13, 2012 in Other
The girls of the next generation are a breed apart from those that have come before From the tender ages of four, three, or even two, they show astonishing bravery and drive. Where girls of generations before were content to aspire to be teachers or veterinarians or astronauts, this generation of girls dreams of taking [...]
Machine City :: Chapter 2
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© Jack Howland :: All Rights Reserved :: January 19, 2012 in Mystery, Thrillers & Crime, Novels
At quarter to seven, the blue sun rising downtown, Rinne stepped through a grid of string on skinny, wooden stakes. The grid divided up the space into two-by-two-yard squares. Cadets from the police academy worked through it. In their powder blue suits, they tagged whatever he told them too. Snow, piss, mud, shit. Cans of [...]
China Doll :: Screenplay
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© Jack Howland :: All Rights Reserved :: January 24, 2012 in Action, Screenplays
FADE IN EXT. JUNGLE RIVER – NIGHT FROM THE PROW OF A SKIFF, we wind slowly through a dense swamp. Trunks of mangrove trees rise darkly from the water. Our outboard motor hums at near-idle speed. We hear men whispering. Our eyes adjust, but not entirely. SUPERIMPOSE: Gulf of Mannar, Sri Lanka. November 21, 1996. [...]
Semantics
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© Rachel Sussman :: All Rights Reserved :: February 24, 2012 in Poetry
Some hikers in the piney wood Bundled safe in cloak and hood Had no idea that soon they would Disturb a fearsome dragon. With jealous eyes, the dragon keeps His forest safe from careless creeps His gentle soul with anger weeps When fools disturb his forest. The hikers had ignored a sign That [...]
Happy? :: Chapter 1
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© Jack Howland :: All Rights Reserved :: January 19, 2012 in Contemporary Fiction, Novels
This is how I prefer to remember my friend, Grant “GG” Goldstein. It’s winter 1976, his fifth birthday party. About twenty of us are in his living room. The atmosphere holds that spoiled stuffiness of running children and oil heat. Mr. and Mrs. Goldstein have herded us together underneath a piñata, the focal point of [...]
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