Due to high gas prices I started riding the bus this summer and found myself with a little under 2 hours of time that used to be spent commuting now at my disposal. I decided to pick up the threads of various story ideas sitting on my hard drive and work them out on the bus. I don't know what I want to do with the finished stories yet, but in the meantime I have been putting "chapters" of Data Ghosts up on my website,
Blue Requiem as I finish them.
Data Ghosts: GPS coordinates from cell phones are used to cross reference huge government databases and render the information in real time to heads up displays over the heads of citizens. When someone’s location is different than actually reported to the system, due to lag or deception, you get a data ghost: names and numbers floating in the empty air. What happens when Frank Crane’s ghost is discovered at the scene of a double homicide?
This is turning out to be about 6,000 words in short story format and is completed in first draft form.
What May Happen in the Year of our Lord 1688: Is my homage to the science fiction out there that doesn't get its predictions right. This story is written from the perspective of a 12th century Dominican monk who writes a fictional manuscript that takes place in the year 1688.
Love and Murder in a Car Wash: An automated car washing robot falls in love with a female patron that pushes all his right buttons.