THE FRUIT IN FRUITY SHEETS
A Short Story from the novel GARDENWILD By Michael Conniff Copyright © 2022 All Rights Reserved “I want a Fruity Sheet!” Noah said. We were in the kitchen the next morning and he was [...]
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 the canal. Inside the barge, [...]
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 to do the work. (How [...]
WEE: A (Crowdsourced) Short Story by Michael Conniff
WEE By Michael Conniff Copyright © 2021 All Rights Reserved “Stop!” she said. She had never said that word to Scotty since they met at her brother’s wedding. He had been marvelous, miraculously clever on [...]
SUPERNOVEL: Hollywood and Synthetic Characters
March 13, 1998 More on Hollywood and technology. Richard Edlund of Boss Films created all the special effects on “Star Wars.” That makes him something of an authority on all the changes happening in Hollywood, [...]
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 Tom O’Kell was a hellish [...]
CON GAMES: 40 Years In The Desert
By Michael Conniff I pride myself on never coming within a whisper of writer’s block but today I have no idea what to say—because today is my 40th anniversary of writing fiction. The point [...]