Dirty Harry was baking a cake. It was another cop's birthday, and there weren't any bad guys around for Harry to shoot that day. Why not bake a delicious cake? He followed the recipe carefully. He mixed the sugar, butter, eggs, and vanilla. He started measuring the dry ingredients. He poured in the flour. Next … Continue reading Go ahead, make my birthday cake
Category: Fiction
I didn't expect to post fiction or creative writing on every Friday for a year. If I had intended to do that I would have published the first post on January 3, 2014 (the first Friday of the year) instead of on January 10th (the second Friday), but I didn't expect the fiction posts to … Continue reading 4 things I learned from a year of Fiction Fridays
She woke up on December 26th, and it was Christmas Day. That is, it should have been December 26th when she woke up, but instead it was Christmas again. The exact same Christmas that she had lived the day before. A lot of people would be thrilled for Christmas Day to get stuck in a … Continue reading Groundhog Day 2: Christmas Again
I'm not a big fan of Christmas and the holiday season in general. All the pressure to be joyful seems pretty naive if you pay attention to the news. The world is shit, but for one month everyone is supposed to ignore that and hang up shiny decorations and buy presents no one needs. I'd … Continue reading The holiday spirit flowed through me
Using the empty office seemed like a good idea at the time. I mean, I know that open work environments are all the rage and that they are supposed to be great for collaboration and stuff, but the lack of privacy is going to take some getting used to. Besides, all they have me doing … Continue reading A new coworker and an empty office on Christmas Eve
Kim Z. Dale 