Jon James Writes Whatever Shit You Come Up With - Probe

The first installment of "Jon James Writes Whatever Shit You Come Up With" is complete! The winning suggestion, by Kelly over on the Facebooks, was: "Mars sends a rover to Earth, it doesn't recognize us as an intelligent life form, takes samples, and leaves."

The story, titled Probe, can be read here.

New Weekly Feature

I'm starting a new weekly feature here to generate more content and get me writing more: Jon James Writes Whatever Shit You Come Up With.

Taking suggestions for the first installment, which will probably be posted Saturday.

I'll write a flash fiction short story of whatever suggestion gets the most likes/votes between here and Facebook at whatever point I feel like writing. I choose on ties. I reserve the right to veto, but there's not much chance that you are going to come up with anything much worse than what I've already posted here.

Comment suggestions or votes below.

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The Tenth Rune and Faceless

If you've been to my Projects page, you may have noticed a novel-in-progress with the unfortunately bland title of Flight of the Valkyrie. I've decided to change the (working) title of that one to The Tenth Rune, which I believe to be more fitting to the story.

I've also posted a new short story that may or may not be part of that novel, but tells the origin of the female Loki-equivalent deity in the pantheon: Faceless. Go on and give it a read!

Hopefully I'll add some more of the cosmogony of Askrlim on here as I develop it further. I've done a lot of re-imagining of the Norse myth that the story draws from, and only a limited amount can fit in the story so I think this would be a neat place to display it.

I've also got a few other short stories in the works set on Askrlim, but I can't post them here since I've got some places in mind I'd like to submit them to. I found a call for anthology submissions at World Weaver Press for a few anthologies that I think would suit this world well. I'll keep you filled in on them as I go.

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New Story Up!

Happy Friday everyone!

I've posted a new short story over on the Projects page. Here's the direct link.

This is an unusual story. The only way I see it ever seeing print is in one of those books that have a bunch of stories in the same universe with my "novel"(?)-in-progress Do Gyndroids Dream of Electric Dicks?, formerly known as Dreammaker. (There's something magical about the word dicks in italics. Especially in serif fonts... Dicks.)

Anyway, I hope you enjoy. It was an interesting experience.

Depending how busy work is, maybe I'll make these Friday short story posts a thing.

Then again, maybe I'll resume posting DGDoED again. I've got a few chapters written that I never got around to posting. Ideally one day I'll get the whole thing mirrored on this site as well to avoid Tumblr's crappy interface. Aaaand that's how a simple notification turns into a ramble. Jon James out.

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