Just when I thought I was getting myself caught up, crap literally fell from the sky and landed on my head. Last Wednesday a charming middle-aged woman knocked on my trailer’s door and asked if I was Jerry Schellhammer, and I said yes. She then handed me court filing from my separated wife suing for divorce.
Tag Archives: Writing
Going with an Agent
The book in question is Nate Turner: Negro Cowboy. If you remember I was given a writing prompt to write a 1,000-word piece about a genre outside my comfort zone. I chose western and used a run-away slave as the protagonist, named Nate Turner.
My Writing Progression
Hello, my loyal readers. I’m hoping you enjoyed your summer and now Autumn is here and one has to wonder where has all the time gone? I was busy at work and got to see my sisters when they came up to visit. I experimented with A/I helping me be a better writer. Don’t worry it didn’t draft my books, blogs, or short stories.
Data Centers? Who Needs Them!
For the longest time, I supported data centers because I believed they would help drive future growth with AI. They sounded like a big win for our economy and for maintaining a global lead against China and other countries.
Plum Crazy
Plum crazy was a color that Chrysler unveiled for the Plymouth Barracuda, though Rachael Brodzinski had no idea what year that was. She just bought a purple ’69 Cuda at a used car lot outside Chicago’s South side. It had white vinyl interior, a screaming 340 cubic inch V-8 and lots of attitude that went well with hers.
Wildfire
I think the first thing I’ve missed since this all started was blue skies. Before the fires that hit Spokane August first, I woke up to twilight and as soon as I left for work after six the blue skies and red ball of our sun welcomed me to a new day. Not anymore.
Historic
Saturday around noon, one of the security guards at the casino where I work told me there was a fire burning near an apartment complex. Earlier that day, a local meteorologist had declared a red flag warning, with sustained winds expected at twenty to thirty miles per hour and gusts exceeding forty-five miles per hour.
America’s Energy Future
In an episode of Paramount’s Landman, Billy Bob Thornton’s character, West Texas oilman Tommy Norris, sharply criticizes renewable energy while walking through a wind farm. He claims that it would take twenty years for a wind turbine to offset the carbon footprint created by its construction, but available data suggests that figure is closer to several months.
Some People Never Learn
Perhaps it was because it’s my Monday. After all, I left my phone where I laid it on the dining table on my trailer with every intention to pick up on the way out the door. But something distracted me again and it sat on that table where I left it. Anyway, I get to work and of course that’s when I realized the phone isn’t in my shirtContinue reading “Some People Never Learn”
BLAMELESS
The street had gone quiet enough for her to hear her own breath. She noticed the man only after she crossed beneath the weak cone of a streetlamp—a dark shape half a block behind her, moving when she moved, stopping when she slowed. She crossed the road without looking back too quickly, willing herself not to run.
