Rural living has its benefits, but solid internet connection isn’t one of them. No cable, no DSL, and rural dial-up isn’t even as good as dial-up. I’ve had ISDN for awhile, but that’s gone. At the moment, I’m using two network sources, both with serious problems. HughesNet has horrible bandwidth caps, and it’s easy enough… Continue reading The Black Hole Network
Author: hmelton
Spicy Traffic Ticket
Okay, that’s over. Now all there’s left to do is to tell the story. Mary Ann is suffering a successful garden. Harvest is producing more than we can currently eat, so she’s hauled out all the old canning jars and scoured the local stores for some of the more obscure canning supplies. The pickles were… Continue reading Spicy Traffic Ticket
Time Travel Stories: Making It Fit
This is the fourth and last of the time travel short stories I’m posting, and the one I wrote most recently. Of the four, Echoes, Litterbug, Far Exile, and now Making It Fit, it was this last that contributed the most ideas to my upcoming novel Golden Girl. In particular, the idea that the whole… Continue reading Time Travel Stories: Making It Fit