Category Archives: Fiction

Fred is a fictional character reporting from Fauxmont.

109. The Red and the White

NOTE: If you haven’t been following this from the beginning, and if you want to know the full sequence of events, start with the introduction.  Click on Archives on the right.  Lou bites into his burger.  A piece of lettuce … Continue reading

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108. Cypher Mattress

NOTE: If you haven’t been following this from the beginning, and if you want to know the full sequence of events, start with the introduction.  Click on Archives on the right.  Flowers of golden rod spray the sun’s yellows up … Continue reading

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107. Lucy

NOTE: If you haven’t been following this from the beginning, and if you want to know the full sequence of events, start with the introduction.  Click on Archives on the right.  The Light House Gas Station looks deserted when I … Continue reading

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106. Muon

NOTE: If you haven’t been following this from the beginning, and if you want to know the full sequence of events, start with the introduction.  Click on Archives on the right.  Lark Bunlush’s umbrella is dripping rain water on the … Continue reading

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105. Paula’s Story

NOTE: If you haven’t been following this from the beginning, and if you want to know the full sequence of events, start with the introduction.  Click on Archives on the right.  “Mom and I were between maids, and I was … Continue reading

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104. Dust Cover

NOTE: If you haven’t been following this from the beginning, and if you want to know the full sequence of events, start with the introduction.  Click on Archives on the right.   The broken couch is alive with stains.  Long dried, … Continue reading

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103. Eclipse

103 Eclipse NOTE: If you haven’t been following this from the beginning, and if you want to know the full sequence of events, start with the introduction.  Click on Archives on the right. It is a stretch, but Daisy finds … Continue reading

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102. Road Toad

NOTE: If you haven’t been following this from the beginning, and if you want to know the full sequence of events, start with the introduction.  Click on Archives on the right. Mrs. Rutherford has rearranged the Cavendish Pie Shop with … Continue reading

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101. Movement

NOTE: If you haven’t been following this from the beginning, and if you want to know the full sequence of events, start with the introduction.  Click on Archives on the right. Bel Vionnet is standing in the street outside her … Continue reading

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100. Loops of String

NOTE: If you haven’t been following this from the beginning, and if you want to know the full sequence of events, start with the introduction.  Click on Archives on the right.  A stream flows from the north at the bottom … Continue reading

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99. Dainish

NOTE: If you haven’t been following this from the beginning, and if you want to know the full sequence of events, start with the introduction.  Click on Archives on the right.  Lou swigs the last of his house-red with the … Continue reading

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98. A New Silence

NOTE: If you haven’t been following this from the beginning, and if you want to know the full sequence of events, start with the introduction.  Click on Archives on the right.  Lark has started across the vast field of gray … Continue reading

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97. After the Derecho

NOTE: If you haven’t been following this from the beginning, and if you want to know the full sequence of events, start with the introduction.  Click on Archives on the right.  Walking along Walton Lane, through the bare-twig winter-woods, we … Continue reading

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96. Looking up to Look Down

My project is about finding the way to reach escape velocity! Illusions color the occasion, fixed on the wall and now flickering there. The café’s picture window in the mural, is now a video screen showing the Macadamia gun rights video that Albrecht had promised to the woman with a blond braid and rifle. Continue reading

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95. Feathery Touch

Feathery Touch NOTE: If you haven’t been following this from the beginning, and if you want to know the full sequence of events, start with the introduction.  Click on Archives on the right.  Hank Dumpty looks as if he is … Continue reading

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94. Nostalgia

NOTE: If you haven’t been following this from the beginning, and if you want to know the full sequence of events, start with the introduction.  Click on Archives on the right.  There are no sidewalks in Fauxmont and no street … Continue reading

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93. Urpsky Dirpsk

NOTE: If you haven’t been following this from the beginning, and if you want to know the full sequence of events, start with the introduction.  Click on Archives on the right.  I don’t recognize Lark Bunlush when I get to … Continue reading

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92. Goofology

NOTE: If you haven’t been following this from the beginning, and if you want to know the full sequence of events, start with the introduction.  Click on Archives on the right.  Mr. Hoffman has put TVs in the H Bar … Continue reading

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91. The Emperor

NOTE: If you haven’t been following this from the beginning, and if you want to know the full sequence of events, start with the introduction.  Click on Archives on the right.   Theo Tinderbrush pulls up at the Hadron Shopping Center … Continue reading

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90. Art and Obstacle

 NOTE: If you haven’t been following this from the beginning, and if you want to know the full sequence of events, start with the introduction.  Click on Archives on the right.  Branches in the huge southern red oak, in Diddlie’s … Continue reading

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