This is a story idea that just came to me in a flash, I don't know what to call it yet, and I am not sure what it is. Horror, thriller, crime, I don't know, but it's in my head and it's... well disturbing.

Here is what I have jotted down so far, hopefully I can turn it into a story.


Man writes letters to young girls. To him they appear innocent, kind, sweet, and thoughtful. He has been doing this for years, he keeps some, mails others. He never really remembers mailing them or even how or where he got the addresses.

He works, but really can't remember much about it. That isn't real to him. He can only recall the sweet, thoughtful letters he writes to the girls. He really doesn't know them, but he somehow feels like he does. He feels connected, very close. To him he is a kind uncle or caring father that is far away and hasn't seen his children in a long time, but he writes to them constantly, expressing his love and encouragement to them.

He is not an old man, but he feels tired and sore most of the time. He is plagued with tormenting dreams that he can not recall, but he knows they sometimes keep him from rest. His bizarre dreams are filled with buckets of water, the smells of pine and urine, bathrooms and bloody toilet seats.

One time he wakes in horror as a dream that feels all to real makes bile rise to the top of his throat. He barely makes it to his tiny bathroom as he collapses to his knees and heaves violently into the small porcelain bowl. He tastes the blood he was licking from the white rims from his nightmare and begins to vomit wildly again. At last he crumples to the floor, dry heaves still convulsing his weakened body.

Of course he can not remember this when he awakens in the morning. He only feels that he has not slept well. As the morning smell of coffee fills his senses and brings memories of long ago, he writes....

copyright Paul Hosler
10/3/2006

Wow I haven't posted since March, so call me a lazy blogger! It's Friday! Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis are on tonight. I am excited about them again, the past few episodes have been fairly decent. I'm still having trouble getting used to the Farscape folks being on SG-1, it really makes me miss that show. Of course the spoof of Farscape on the 100th episode was a riot. Heck the whole thing was funny. Alas, I'm not sure where Atlantis is heading with this good Wraith bad Wraith thing. The Wraith are supposed to be vampirish, consumed by hunger, monsters. Not our best buddies.

Battlestar Galactica is supposed to be back in Oct. or Nov. drats I can't remember and I don't feel like looking it up. I'm also looking forward to this coming back to TV and Dr. Who as well.

I haven't read any good fiction lately, I've been reading technical books - Perl programming stuff. But books like that are for another place. I was writing a short story for this blog, but I guess I got distracted. Maybe I'll finish it, maybe I'll start a different one. Basically it was going to be based on "Bushisms", the funny things our President says. Basically this person wakes up and everyone is speaking in Bushisms. Honestly I got the idea from an episode of the Twilight Zone I saw a long time ago, where this salesman wakes up and the whole world is speaking some type of jargon that he does not understand. Ultimately he has to relearn the language and at the end he is reading a children's book, his effort in self education. The primes of Bushisms was going to be the same, the protagonist would be able to understand everything that was being said, but none of it would make sense or be in some sort of way out of place context.

Okay, maybe that is a little too challenging for me, even as a short story, heck I don't know if I could even get a good essay out of it. It sounded fun when I came up with the idea though.


More later, maybe I'll talk about the SG shows after I watch them, oh joy ;)

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If you are here that means you might be interested in some weird fiction. I might be able to provide that, either through my own sporadic writing, or by reviews of things I may have read or watched recently, or in the past. I am not looking for critiques, spelling, or grammar corrections. If you don't like what you're reading, then read something else. This is just something fun for me to do, and if I happen to accidentally write something that someone likes, well then all the better.

To post to this blog I am using Slackware Linux as my OS, XFCE as my desktop of choice, and Drivel as my editor. I have a fondness for penguins, Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, and Battlestar Galactica. I am also looking forward to Dr. Who premiering on the SciFi channel later this month, next Friday I think. I am also looking very forward to the return of Stargate SG-1 in July. I suppose though that SG-1 is a little disappointing, I really like space ships and all, but it just doesn't seem right on this show. I do find it a neat idea though, that our government has inter-stellar space craft that only a few people actually know about. It also surprises me that actually so many people seem to know about the star gate program and the space ships, but no one has ever actually spilled the beans on the whole operation. Not that a few haven't tried, but it never seems to get very far. Can you imagine the Washington Post or NY Times not having someone snooping around to find out about that stuff. I guess with Bush causing hurricanes and Port Gate are much more important news topics though. ;-)