CON GAMES: Historical Fiction You Can’t Make Up
Suggested reading: THOMAS EDISON MEETS HIS BASTARD SON, a short story from the BOOK O’KELLS. Suggested listening: DEARBORN audio short story from the novel NATURE OF THE BEAST from [...]
BOOK OF O’KELLS: MOTHER NATURE Chapter 1 Summary
Buy the book here! Chapter One: In The Wake of the Great Fornicator The Archbishop is in his chambers as his barge arrives one summer in the last town along [...]
How To Crowdsource A Short Story: OPTION RIGHT by Michael Conniff
I don’t know what took me so long to get wise to crowdsourcing my stories. Maybe it was my old-school notion that writing a story actually required an individual person [...]
WRITE GOOD! How To Crowdsource A Short Story: OPTION RIGHT
By Michael Conniff I don’t know what took me so long to get wise to crowdsourcing my stories. Maybe it was my old-school notion that writing a story actually required [...]
OPTION RIGHT 2.O: A (Crowdsourced) Short Story By Michael Conniff
Copyright © 2021 All Rights Reserved From the beginning playing football at Kent Abbey was supposed to be a higher calling for someone with my O’Kell pedigree. My odious [...]
ATOMIC TOM: A Short Story by Michael Conniff from the BOOK OF O’KELLS
ATOMIC TOM By Michael Conniff Copyright © 2019 All Rights Reserved A Short Story from the novel BOOK OF O’KELLS: NATURE OF THE BEAST The world knows Atomic [...]
WRITE GOOD! Author Desperately Seeking Help With ‘Option Right’ Short Story
Hello, it’s me, your friendly neighborhood writer, and I have a problem with a short story I just wrote. I don’t know what’s missing and I need your help to [...]
OPTION RIGHT 1.0: A Short Story by Michael Conniff from the BOOK OF O’KELLS
Copyright © 2021 All Rights Reserved From the beginning I was supposed to play football at Kent Abbey. Nobody in my family ever said anything about it—not even my odious [...]
THE SCHOOL OF LOVE: A Short Story by Michael Conniff from the BOOK OF O’KELLS
THE SCHOOL OF LOVE By Michael Conniff Copyright © 2019 All Rights Reserved A Short Story from the novel BOOK OF O’KELLS: NATURE OF THE BEAST Sex was not [...]
THE SUPERNOVEL by Michael Conniff
THE SUPERNOVEL by Michael Conniff August 25, 2019 Worth remembering: I have actually written what I call the Supernovel because THE GOOD EGG, originally known as CHILDREN OF THE O’KELLS, [...]
BOOK OF O’KELLS: IN THE WAKE OF THE GREAT FORNICATOR
The first chapter in the BOOK OF O'KELLS, my multigenerational dismemberment of my fictional family, starting with the origin stories of Jake O'Kell and the Great Fornicator himself, Thomas Cushing.