Writing Challenge – SJ Shoemaker

Experimental April 15, 2024 0

Parallel Processes 2 – Chapters for April 2024

No. No. No!

The moment the first bit was written to disk, Barnab-B knew what had happened: His physical counterpart had grown impatient. Of course he did. He was a dead man walking (sitting, actually) with one Hail Mary play for more time. How could he know about his new scan’s effect on a world he was oblivious to? This would only make Barnab-B’s task more complicated. Too many processes will over-utilize the CPU. He had already felt the throttling while building the instructions dump for Draven.

Experimental April 2, 2024 0

Parallel Processes 1 – Chapters for March 2024

Transference complete.

It worked! Barnaby knew at once. Could feel the rhapsodic tingle coursing through his… curious just how much language morphed around the bodily experience. Whatever he now was pulsed with the same oscillation as his surroundings. The quartz heartbeat of his new world. He could not see it–see anything in the traditional sense, but he knew it somehow. Knowledge granted freely to any who would ask from the central coordinating process. Each request like a digital prayer answered by the unseen.

Writing Challenge June 10, 2023 0

Loss on a (Word) Budget

50 words: It is not that I fear joy. I long as much as any. But joy is a momentary spike of emotion. I fear not the peak but the descent into the valley that comes after. If life is a culmination of averages, what sin is there in seeking a plateau?

Writing Challenge January 25, 2023 0

Can It!

“What do we got?” Callum ducked his head to fit through the doorway to the small office. The floors were carpeted. Green walls. Bookshelves took up the entire eastern wall.

“You of all people should recognize a corpse,” the dark-haired man jested from the corner of the room. He lined up his shot, and the camera clicked. His target: the victim. In the center of the room sat a red cushioned chair facing a heavy wooden desk. A woman sat motionless in the chair, back to Callum. From where he stood, she look perfectly fine, still among the living apart from the lack of motion.

Writing Challenge January 17, 2023 0

Against the Grain

He had done it!

Aesc had finally cracked the cryptic book of magic spells. It had taken months to track down such a forbidden text. And years more to interpret. Magic had long since been outlawed throughout the kingdom, and the ealdormen of his village were superstitious and zealous to the point of extremism. Caution was foremost on Aesc’s mind, but never at the sake of progress.

Writing Challenge September 13, 2021 0

Brown Hair Description Challenge

Her hair poured from her hat in streams of coffee which splashed across her shoulders in search of a tall cup. “Pull up a chair,” it seemed to say, “and enjoy a conversation with a friendly face.”