Tag Archives: Ficta Mystica

A Ficta Mystica Rumination

Posted on June 27, 2012 by Gene Stewart

I’m glad to have discovered my Ficta Mystica sub-strata as the basis of most of what I write because it frees me to trope from dark to light without changing my approach to fiction. Encountering the Other and blundering into … Continue reading →

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Hurt Cut Bone

Posted on May 31, 2012 by Gene Stewart

I am very hard to get along with regardless who you are in my life. Including me. I am not often as hard on others as I have been on you. Long term, though, perhaps others would disagree. When you … Continue reading →

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A Beltane Witching

Posted on May 1, 2012 by Gene Stewart

A slender young woman with pale skin and autumnal hair lit a candle in a dark room. Nude, she shivered and lit four more candles. She walked around the five candles three times counterclockwise. As she did so, she whispered … Continue reading →

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Her Scent On His Hands

Posted on April 17, 2012 by Gene Stewart

He dreamed of her and woke with the scent of her perfume on his hands. She had been gone for more than a week. She had gone out for groceries and had not returned. Her car was found, with her … Continue reading →

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Plotting Courses, Charting Novels

Posted on April 16, 2012 by Gene Stewart

“Plotting Courses, Charting Novels” They call it a plot by analogy to nautical charts. The navigators plotted a course. They knew where they set out and where they wanted to go. They planned a reasonable route. Along the way, however, … Continue reading →

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What Goes Up

Posted on March 29, 2012 by Gene Stewart

Joe Turner carried an apple crate into Eddie’s that night.  He hefted it up onto the bar, then climbed onto a stool.  He put his elbows on the bar and said, “Draft.” Eddie, the bartender, broke off a chat he’d … Continue reading →

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A Review of Floating Staircase by Ronald Malfi

Posted on March 26, 2012 by Gene Stewart

In Floating Staircase, Islands In the Stream by Hemingway, who is saluted overtly, Bradbury’s Dandelion Wine, and Thomas Harris’s Silence of the Lambs, echo like footsteps in an empty house. Flannery O’Connor’s shade flits by. There is a whiff of … Continue reading →

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Progress (blocked)

Posted on October 18, 2011 by Gene Stewart

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Serial Killer Factory

Posted on October 9, 2011 by Gene Stewart

We live in a serial killer factory called, with renewed irony, the United States of America. The FBI is considered Expert Central for all things serial killer, but even the FBI has no idea how many are active at any … Continue reading →

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Great Man’s Ghost

Posted on October 4, 2011 by Gene Stewart

“He loved everything up to a certain point, and then nothing was any good anymore.” – Hemingway’s younger brother, Leicester. /// In the war he did horrible things. Put det cord around a prisoner’s forehead and set it off. Vaporized … Continue reading →

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