J. Dane Tyler

#FridayFlash: Shy CowboyDarcKnyt

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:30:05 +0000

This is another exercise in character study; this time, I’m attempting to portray awkwardness and embarrassment, shyness and nerves. Please feel free to let me know how you like it, what works, what doesn’t, etc. Thanks for the read! UPDATED: I’ve made some changes based on the feedback on 18 Dec 2009. I hope this is [...]

#FridayFlash: Western-Fantasy Vignette 2DarcKnyt

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:30:00 +0000

He stood under the salmon sky while the wind slapped denim, skin, hair. She faced away toward the road, skirt flapping over broken dust-colored boots. Her coat ruffled in the thin air. Her locks tattered as she held them captive beneath the hat she pressed onto her head with one hand. In the other she [...]

#FridayFlash: Tickets, Please.DarcKnyt

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 23:19:48 +0000

The wheels clattering over the track junction woke him from a restless sleep. He blinked into the strange light. For a moment he couldn’t find the source of the blue-white glow, but gave it no further thought when he couldn’t recall getting on a train in the first place. He slid upright in the uncomfortable vinyl [...]

#FridayFlash: Copyright ProtectedDarcKnyt

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:56:26 +0000

Music oozed through speakers mounted high in the room’s corners and spilled over the murky half-light leaking through cracks around the heavy drapes and shut blinds. The sliding closet door stood ajar, revealing a jumble of clothes thrown haphazardly onto hangers and shoved onto the packed rod. Some stood free, wrinkling atop the mashed wads [...]

#fridayflash: In Short OrderDarcKnyt

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:30:00 +0000

He drags on the cigarette and lets the smoke out through his nostrils in a gray-blue plume. It clashes with the red vinyl of the stools, chairs and pocked countertop. A lump of adobe which used to be a pile of donuts fossilizes under a glass cover at the L-turn. A waitress is smacking her [...]

Morning CommuteDarcKnyt

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:30:00 +0000

Eddie sat in his usual corner at the back of the train car on the upper deck, face turned to the window. He didn’t look at me when I got to the top of the stairs at the front of the car. Usually he smiles. A woman in the front seat opposite us on the [...]

Rock-a-Bye BullyDarcKnyt

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 06:04:51 +0000

I stood in the fresh country air, feet on the lower runner of a split rail fence, elbows on the upper. The strong sun beat down from behind the hazy clouds in the cadet blue sky and beaded sweat from under my long, silky bangs. The tall grass tickled in the muggy breeze and bugs [...]

Western-Fantasy Vignette #1DarcKnyt

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 04:02:12 +0000

A short (less than 2400 words) vignette with a western flair, but a fantasy foundation. I had a dream several weeks ago, and this was the dream.  There’s another piece of it, too, though it seemed unrelated in how diverse the scenes were.  I’ll get to that one soon, I hope. Enjoy, and please feel free to [...]

A Jog in the ParkDarcKnyt

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:48:41 +0000

By now, my dad knows I’m missing. I don’t know where I am.  I’m lying in sand.  I was running, running through a park.  Someone came up behind me — I thought it was another runner — and then a sharp pain, on the back of my head.  Blackness, shot through with stars, then a [...]

Do Not Enter, Part 5DarcKnyt

Thu, 05 Mar 2009 06:59:23 +0000

The end of the story.  If you’re interested in seeing it from the beginning, you can do so from this page. Thanks for following along, everyone! ==================================== A hot wash of air rushed up from behind Rose. It raised the hair on her arms and neck and a shudder wracked her body.  She heard her breath, thready and whimpering, [...]

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