by Rob Diaz | Dec 30, 2011 | Edited, Humorous, Prompted, Real Life
written based on the [Fiction] Friday prompt on December 30, 2011: “What are your Anti-Resolutions for the coming year?” I will not petition the USDA to make them add a coffee section to the ChooseMyPlate dietary guidelines, despite the fact that coffee is an...
by Rob Diaz | Dec 29, 2011 | Edited, Real Life
So, I’ve long held that despite being male, I am just one of the girls. Lacking any real evidence of this, though, I’ve been forced to use more anecdotal facts to try to persuade the non-believers among my various acquaintances that this is, in fact, true....
by Rob Diaz | Nov 3, 2011 | Real Life
I’m currently getting ready to participate in NaNoWriMo 2011. I have been busy dealing with “The Real World” so far, and therefore I haven’t actually started my novel yet. In fact, I don’t even have an idea yet. The lack of ideas is,...
by Rob Diaz | Oct 15, 2011 | Edited, General Fiction, Publication Announcements, Sci-fi/Fantasy, Short Stories
Within the next few weeks, you will be able to purchase your very own paperback copies of not one, not two, but three anthologies in which I have stories. First up, we have two books in the Chinese Whisperings lineup: My story, Out of the Darkness, appears in Chinese...
by Rob Diaz | Sep 21, 2011 | General Fiction, Publication Announcements, Real Life
Jodi Cleghorn and Dale Challener Roe have thrown down the gauntlet and challenged me to think about my story, “Out of the Darkness”, and what character I might wish I’d have written about if I could do it all again. Not being one to back down from a...
by Rob Diaz | Jun 12, 2011 | Edited, Non-fiction, Real Life
I was tagged by Icy Sedgwick in her meme and while it has taken me a few days to get to it, I absolutely do not want to be the one who breaks this chain letter… so here’s my post about what writing means to me. Writing is my time capsule. Or maybe it’s a...
by Rob Diaz | Apr 1, 2011 | Sci-fi/Fantasy, Short Stories, Unedited
(A note about ‘Hidden’) I initially posted a draft of this story several years ago. I wasn’t a big fan of it, so I reworked it significantly and re-published it today. I hope you enjoy it. “This is the perfect hiding spot, isn’t it?” The...
by Rob Diaz | Feb 17, 2011 | Short Stories, Unedited
by Nick Diaz and Rob Diaz (A note about ‘Mercury Marshmallow Men’) My son has been struggling in school with writing. He has been putting together extremely brief answers to essay questions and largely not enough details about anything. The...
by Rob Diaz | Feb 16, 2011 | Edited, Publication Announcements, Real Life, Sci-fi/Fantasy
It has been my privilege and good fortune to be asked to be a part of a new anthology! “Nothing But Flowers: tales of post apocalyptic love” is the second offering from Literary Mix Tapes (a quarterly crowd-sourced short fiction anthology inspired by...
by Rob Diaz | Jan 5, 2011 | Edited, Humorous, Prompted, Real Life
(written based on the [Fiction] Friday prompt on December 31, 2010: “What are your Anti-Resolutions for the coming year?”) Note: Most people put in 5 or 10 of these… but somehow, 13 seemed more appropriate for me. I will not continue trying to find...
