Introduction "Alabama Zack" is a 40-chapter science fiction serial, published in the Scholar and Scribe community once a week on Wednesdays. You can start the serial from the beginning by visiting

There is a small, red-and-black room just off the foyer in the ranch house. Bare except for an oil painting that hangs in the center of the wall and confronts you from the doorway. You pause, certain that

Introduction "Alabama Zack" is a 40-chapter science fiction serial, published in the Scholar and Scribe community once a week on Wednesdays. You can start the serial from the beginning by visiting

Introduction "Alabama Zack" is a 40-chapter science fiction serial, published in the Scholar and Scribe community once a week on Wednesdays. You can start the serial from the beginning by visiting

Beacon Hill in Hoquiam, Wash., 2026 I guess I'm homesteading now. After 12 years of apartment living in Hoquiam, Wash., I have picked up stakes and moved to a farm 20 miles north, near the census-designated

A legion of diverse forms wandered the desert plain, and after a time, the wolf grew accustomed to them. A mangled koala, perpetual blood dripping from its torn ear, appeared on occasion. Once, a white

Introduction "Alabama Zack" is a 40-chapter science fiction serial, published in the Scholar and Scribe community once a week on Wednesdays. You can start the serial from the beginning by visiting

Introduction "Alabama Zack" is a 40-chapter science fiction serial, published in the Scholar and Scribe community once a week on Wednesdays. You can start the serial from the beginning by visiting

Introduction "Alabama Zack" is a 40-chapter science fiction serial, published in the Scholar and Scribe community once a week on Wednesdays. You can start the serial from the beginning by visiting

Introduction "Alabama Zack" is a 40-chapter science fiction serial, published in the Scholar and Scribe community once a week on Wednesdays. You can start the serial from the beginning by visiting

Introduction "Alabama Zack" is a 40-chapter science fiction serial, published in the Scholar and Scribe community once a week on Wednesdays. You can start the serial from the beginning by visiting

The first time I used a phone booth I was running away. It would have been August 1990. I was 14 years old. Our church, Faith Assembly (the Wikipedia link above includes old reporting about the faith healing

Monday the day broke beautifully and I was out the door for a photowalk within minutes of waking up. I chose my go-to destination in hometown Hoquiam, Wash.: Dog Marsh on the Grays Harbor bay. It's about

Introduction "Alabama Zack" is a 40-chapter science fiction serial, published in the Scholar and Scribe community once a week on Wednesdays. You can start the serial from the beginning by visiting

Our dog Raggy was a part of the family before I was. I was my parents' firstborn. The origin story I got growing up was mom was lonely while dad was at work, that first year of marriage when I was on the

Introduction "Alabama Zack" is a 40-chapter science fiction serial, published in the Scholar and Scribe community once a week on Wednesdays. You can start the serial from the beginning by visiting

Tuesday afternoon I took a photographic ramble through my hometown of Hoquiam, Wash., to near the city limits on the bay of Grays Harbor, about a two mile journey. I went looking for birds. The Grays Harbor

Introduction "Alabama Zack" is a 40-chapter science fiction serial, published in the Scholar and Scribe community once a week on Wednesdays. You can start the serial from the beginning by visiting

Clarissa came by this afternoon. She wasn't wearing much – daisy dukes with black sheer stockings and a half shirt – and I tried to keep my eyes in my head. We hadn't really settled anything yet, and I

Last Friday I took a brief, afternoon excursion to Westport, Wash. The brief part of the excursion was my time actually in Westport. It's an hourlong bus ride from my apartment in Hoquiam around the Grays