Adrian Peninsula

Spartan is 16 by Jacob Malewitz Adrian Crossing, 2 Blue Vest Alpine 8, New Empire War, 100 100 100 50, Columbia  ## Red put it into a brown box, a small box, unplugging everything but still feeling it felt, lived, breathed in a sense. All he needed was to find it a soul, or a body. He put  it into a brown box, eyeing the small wooden features of this box, knowing it held something he did, and how he had forgotten it held so much for him. With all his evils, with his destruction of a whole society, he had never fathered a child, never looked on someone with love, mother or father, girl or boy, man or woman. He loved, First, loved the AI he barely knew because it seemed to make sense to him, because it said more about him than the world. He heard the screaming next, a convoluted heavy breathing coming from within the box. “First scared! First scared!” It said, and oddly enough, it needed protection of some kind; Red saw that with this creature, and this minor weakness meant the ...

  Damon Knight: Creating Short Fiction Review by Francis going point spec Adrian Crossing, a Short Story Chronicle Knight calls the short story many things. What is the short story really? Why be a short story writer? These are the central questions in books on short story writing. Damon Knight wrote “Creating Short Fiction” at a time when short stories were slowing falling away. Now they are, much like essays, returning to print publications and online journals. Knight opens the book explaining that writing cannot be taught, and if it could, a book would not teach it. Well, why write the book? The answer is never given. Knight says much is known of the writer he or she is an individualist, a skeptic, a taboo-breaker, moocher, loner, undependable, usually behind on rent, keep irregular hours, and do odd things. I don't necessarily agree with this either. “Writing talent is not all one thing: it is a cluster of abilities,” like imagination and determination. Four stages...