Steven E. Wedel

This Firefox thing is weird. Sometimes it won’t let me click in this message field to begin typing. Mostly I filled holes in the backyard this weekend, trying to level out the area where I’m building a 10’x14′ shed. I brought home 800 lbs of dirt in the back of the minivan on Saturday to…

Some of the pending changes at work have been announced. Not all. Not nearly enough to satisfy me, but some. I’ll have a new boss between now and July 1. The ad is listed on the site. Freaking minimum salaray is considerably more than I make, but I won’t be applying for the job. I’m…

Ahh, Hump Day. The day we all think about … the weekend, you perv! Some of us, of course, think about the weekend all week. Just did my latest vanity search at Amazon.com. Can it be they are all out of copies of Shara? They’re not even listing any used copies. Sales numbers haven’t gone…

I was gonna mention this in the earlier entry, but it didn’t seem to fit. Traffic was brutal this morning as people poured into town for the memorial, mingling with us regular commuters. I had some Meat Loaf blasting on the car stereo when I felt the cell phone vibrating in my shirt pocket. I…

Time. In the real world, the outside world, time keeps moving. It only really stops inside us, in our heads, in our hearts. We carry images frozen there, looking back at them, remembering what we were doing when we saw that, heard that, smelled that, felt that. Sometimes they’re sweet things, like a first kiss,…

Paul over to the Horror Fiction News Network has posted my short story “Elysia” as a preview of Call to the Hunt. This is the only tale in the collection written in first person. It was inspired by a dream I had in 1996 as I was writing the first draft of Shara. The whole…

What a weekend it’s been! Yesterday was spend working on a shed in the back yard. Still isn’t finished, as I have to level part of the yard and fill some holes so the entire floor foundation is supported before I put in the plywood floor. Then I can do the roof. I put down…

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Can it really be? Was it really three years ago I was in the Ponca City hospital as my last child was born? It hardly seems possible, but the calendar says it is. My little guy is three years old. And already too smart for his own good. And stubborn. He refuses to use the toilet.…