Moving In
I'm just getting myself set up on blogspot at the moment; I'm absolutely terrible at design and layout for this sort of thing...Anyhow, if you're reading this, welcome to Dodging The Beat! I'm Ben...
View ArticleLament for a Cabbie
This story was one of the first that I ever published online- about a year ago. Hence why it gets to be the first story I post here. At the time, it was a drastic deviation from the hard science...
View ArticleThe Five Skin Thud
I am flying. My wings beat once, terribly. The wind shakes with its passing. All the while, my ankle slams down, making minute adjustments, preparing for the fall ahead. I hang, as the wind shrieks by...
View ArticleTardiness, or why "Drive" won't be up.
Whoops! Sorry for not keeping up, folks- it's been a rather eventful week. Will be posting "Red" after this.As for "Drive"-seeing as it's due to be published over at the Story Shack in just under two...
View ArticleRed (Washed Out Fiction)
"Washed Out Fiction" is am anthology I ended up putting together between writing Pit Stop 189's first (and terrible) draft. It's a group of character sketches centering around characters who are...
View ArticleParched (Washed Out Fiction)
Another one of the Washed Out Fiction stories. This one's devoted to the only character of "The Crucible" by Arthur Miller that I actually enjoyed reading about- Giles Correy. This sketch is a bit...
View ArticleInked (Washed Out Fiction)
Yet another "Washed Out Fiction" tale- one of my favourites, aside from Drive. It's a tale I imagine a lot of creative-types (writers especially) can relate to on some level. I am planning to reuse...
View ArticleIt's Finally Here, Folks
"Drive" has finally made its way into The Story Shack! Check it out here: http://thestoryshack.com/2013/01/24/drive-by-ben-dodge-mark-reihill/Thanks to Mark Reihill, a fantastic illustrator, and to...
View Article5th and West [Protag/Antag Contest]
This story was an experimental piece (and not part of "Washed Out Fiction"- wanted to give a bit of a break) for Chuck Wendig's "Terrible Minds" blog. The challenge was thus; 1000 word story- one half...
View ArticlePIT STOP 169: Prologue Excerpt ("We Take All Kinds")
As soon as I started the first draft of my first novel, "Pit Stop 169", I promised myself I wouldn't make the same mistakes that I had in planning the original story for this- a long-winded,...
View ArticlePIT STOP 169: Prologue Excerpt ("We Take All Kinds")
As soon as I started the first draft of my first novel, "Pit Stop 169", I promised myself I wouldn't make the same mistakes that I had in planning the original story for this- a long-winded,...
View ArticleLong Time No See
It's been too long.I've been working on a few things in the last six months since I've been on this blog. I've pounded out a few new stories. Two of my pieces got published ("Inked" and "The Last...
View ArticleThe Thompson Defense
See? I can make it back for day two. That's a start...assuming the insane amount of vacuuming that needs to get done today doesn't stretch out into the rest of the week. Another story today; this...
View ArticleNew Story- "Instant Gratification"
The beeping shattered the dank Atlantic evening.It was five o’clock. The tide was falling like a stain down the pebbly beach of the coast, dragging stones and sticks and the garbage bags full of ten...
View ArticleOn Clearing Out The Cobwebs; Work Week; Regular Posting
Once again, I need to brush off the cobwebs on this page and get back to blogging. If you've stuck around reading this blog ever since I did my last post, thanks very much for your patience. I've been...
View ArticleThe Intro Boilerplate
This is my third attempt at a blog.The other two fell through as a mediocre combination of shitty Internet, utter incompetence with blogging platforms, and a general lack of will to talk about myself....
View ArticleThe Reason
The upcoming summer. Reporting/journalism work is taking up my schedule until mid-April. After that, it's four months of part-time work. In other words, more time. I've got a novel that was started...
View ArticlePit Stop--"We Get All Kinds"
“Hold it there!”“Where?”A ruined face stares back, oozing blood to add to the river flowing past their knees. It coughs, twitches once. Moans. Tattoos twist across sunken cheeks.“Harder!”His hands...
View Article"Ignition Hurts"
Scrap is all they have.The detritus of centuries fashioned in mere decades cakes the hull. A tide of capitalism unrestrained by sense or sanity; the thrusters will ignite in seconds if she hits the...
View Article"Parched"
He chokes.Fried and blistered from the centuries of heat, he stares down the weeded enemy entrenched in deep rows and dikes. His own lines stand strong; have always stood strong since he dug them with...
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