I participated in the 2012 Write-a-thon to raise money for the Clarion West Writers Workshop. The Write-a-thon is what Nicola Griffith calls “a shadow workshop,” giving about 200 of us a chance to pursue our writing goals in parallel with the official workshop that ran June 17 through July 27.
I wrote (and published under Creative Commons licenses) two short stories inspired by the works of geek-culture songwriter Jonathan Coulton:
- Escape from Chiron Beta Prime — The Anderson family’s clueless relatives Max and Pat Cruz arrive for a family reunion on the mining colony.
- Night on Skullcrusher Mountain — The local sheriff and deputies are called in when the lovesick mad scientist’s date goes sour.
