KL Forslund

They say you shouldn’t start a story with dialogue. But sometimes that’s how a story starts. A question. An answer. A moment later the...

I'm sitting here this Christmas morning with my dog snuggled up next to me and the water shut off so the pipes don't freeze. It's a good...

Landing in Houston should be the last leg in my odyssey. My neck hurt from staring out the window at the grey clouds with my good eye. It...

I’ve only got one eye, but I saw too much. Rain dragged me out to the mall so she could get new clothes for work. She said I needed to...

Comicpalooza announced guests from the Stargate series this week. Which gave me the idea to dress up as a SG team. I hope actors get a...

“Carson, did you see that streaker?” “What? Just now?” “Yes now. Do not clown on me.” “This is Tokei, Mokoaji,are you sure?” “I saw a...

Don’t you love it when somebody who’s got no particular expertise or experience pontificates on a subject as if their opinion matters a...

Holy crap, it's February. January got away from me. New job. Projects. Carpal Elb-ow attack. I'll be okay, so will you. Since it is...

It turns out that if you stand vigil in your wife’s hospital room for three days, you get a dream sequence. I can’t feel my feet anymore,...

I’d never been to a wedding, so I wasn’t sure if a goat attack was part of the ceremony. Back when Rain and I married, we drove to a...

In honor of the Halloween season, I participated in #TrickOrTweet2021. The rules were simple, write a scary story including the hashtag...

Now and then, folks need to account for their work. Also, I needed a topic for this month. So let’s talk about my book in progress....

I’m old enough that my color crayon box had one called Fleshtone. I remember remarking that it didn’t really match me that well. I ended...

A few weeks back I wrote a program. I reckon that’s not unusual, given that I program for a living. But this one I wrote for myself. ...

Sometimes the news is a little slow. Like when NPR said Juneteenth was the day enslaved Americans found out they were free. Texas is a...

I can tell you where the Mississippi starts, but not where the water comes from. The same is true for ideas. Folks ask creatives like...

We’re a year later and folks are still arguing about masks. My drive has a couple drafts of unpublished articles on the subject. It...

I got shot today. It was a setup. They knew I was coming. I drove to this place where I had to prove who I was. Then I waited. My turn...

One of the most impactful things Gene Roddenberry did for society was putting Nichelle Nichols on the bridge of the Enterprise. Countless...

Others had it worse, but the Freeze of 2021 wasn’t fun for us, either. I feel like it’s a touchy subject because I got lucky and I had...