Free Range Ferals

Free-Range Feralsby Colin Campbell      It didn’t occur to me that my childhood life was unusual, not until later in life when I discovered that hardly anybody else’s mother was a motorcycle club mama.    When she married one of the young gang members, she didn’t tell him the marriage would trigger the sale of the […]

Biker Mama

Biker Mama a memoir by Colin Campbell      Three weeks after I turned 14, my mother married a guy who was 21. Pete. She told me all about it. His parents were against it. She tried to dissuade him. “I could never marry a Catholic,” she told Pete when he proposed. They were parked at […]

Copywritering 9-16-24

I was a copywriter for a long time and then the Macintosh computer came along and changed the entire graphic arts industry. Typesetters were among the first to vanish. A prominent Santa Barbara typesetter suicided. I myself profited by draining the life out of typesetters using my laser printer. When I bought my first laser […]

Copywritering 8-7-24

Copywritering: August 7, 2024   “Copywritering” is the process of attempting to earn a living by being a  copywriter.       I’ve been doing it a long time. I never expected to retire: I thought I would work until my final breath. I’m not in retirement, I’m still trying to adapt my skills toward being a […]

Copywritering 8-6-24

Copywritering 8-6-24    I saw an article today, “Big Tech’s AI shock troops came for us — are you next?” by Josh Slocum. He was laid off as a content creation writer when the company he worked for went out of business last week and all thirty writers are now in the unemployment line. “It’s not […]

Moire

Moire A short story (5,675 words) by Colin  Campbell      Jacob Voz met Moire when he delivered another iteration of a superconductive boat motor to the Marine Science Institute. He opened the door into the lab and saw a woman in a fluorescent orange bikini sitting at a workbench full of electronics equipment. She looked […]

Slingship Sam, Chapter 8: In The Cooler

Slingship Sam, Chapter 8: In the Cooler   Prologue Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8      They tased Sam again and half-carried him through the maze of re-purposed containers to a bare empty container, 8 feet wide, 8 feet high, 40 feet long. An empty […]

7. Entering the Dome

Slingship Sam, Chapter 7: Entering the dome Prologue Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8      Gravity inside the airlock slammed him to the floor. He was still paralyzed from the taser but still fully conscious. Must be corium plating in the floor. Felt like about […]

SlingSam 1.6

Slingship Sam chapter 6 Prologue Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7      “Good morning, Sam, it’s time for you to get up. We will return to periapsis in thirty five minutes.”      There’s no morning in space, just a clock setting. Astronauts in the old Space Station […]

SlingSam 1.5

Slingship Sam chapter 5 Prologue Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7      Sam woke in darkness. His head hurt. He was floating in zero gravity, and that was not good. The interior of the spaceship was dark, lit only by the stars and the dim reflection from […]