An Atherton’s Artificial Artifact! Ladies! Don’t Be Shy! Name Your Brand! Just Tell ’em: Make Mine An Atherton’s! What is an Atherton’s Artificial Artifact? Click Here for a kind of explanation Continue reading
An Atherton’s Artificial Artifact! None Genuine Without This Guarantee! Today’s Offering: An Index For A Guide To Decorum and Deportment! Continue reading
An Atherton’s Artificial Artifact End-Notes 1 A surprisingly well-documented curse, as these things go. 2 Collected Letters of Thaddeus Carrington (1744) 3 The Raven of the Wessex Carringtons: origins of the curse unknown, but said by some to be the result of a pact with the Devil. 4 Many seem… Continue reading
B is for… Biography of a Bounder! Another fine product from Atherton’s Artificial Artifacts! Accept no substitute! (P.S. – I know I promised to do but a single page every day, but… things got slightly out of hand) Continue reading
The Alchemical Anchorite has been, in the three centuries since its discovery in a trunk in a Cavalier stronghold by an invading Roundhead who’d expected the trunk to contain Charles the First, a more than usually fertile field for wild academic speculation. Its anonymous authorship and unknown date of publication… Continue reading
I am a bibliophile. I really should not be allowed to go to used bookshops: I come away with bags of books, some of which I never intend to read. I buy them just to take them home and gloat over them in solitude. This makes the library at Atherton… Continue reading
We (and by ‘we,’ what I mean is ‘I’) at Atherton’s Magic Vapour do occasionally venture out of our cozy digital manor in order to pay little social calls upon neighbors. Hearing a rumour that one of our acquaintances had actually Written a Book, we, pausing only to don gloves,… Continue reading
My Round 2 NYC Midnight Flash Fiction Contest Entry! A Caveat: This time, my assigned genre was Romance. Generally, I don’t do Romance. Romantic Comedy? Sure! But, since Romantic Comedy is a possible genre in these contests, and since you can be disqualified if your piece seems to be out-of-genre,… Continue reading
I have, once again, launched myself into the maelstrom of the NYC Midnight Flash Fiction Contest. This time, my prompt was: Genre: Comedy Location: An Expensive Steak-house Object: A Bottle of Water And I wrote this: TABLE FOR NONE Synopsis: On his first day on the job, a maitre d’… Continue reading
The remarkable Hannah Givens, comic-book savant and all-round awesome person, has done me the honor of including me in a Freestyle Writing Challenge. The rules are below. My prompt was as follows: Write a scene of inconvenient emotion Here is my response: Mirth In Funeral It was perfect funeral weather.… Continue reading
