Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don't see any.
Orson Scott

Comment preview: So my dad's name is Paul George. We sort of have an ongoing joke where I'll come in and say "Great game tonight!" or "Congrats on making the All-Star team!" etc. etc. So he just came home and I broke the news to him. I said, "Did you hear about your injury ....


Comment preview: I think it's got a lot of the hallmarks of a troll story: vague details that could seem plausible but for which it's conveniently impossible to offer proof (when people lie, they to tend to tell bare-boned stories with few details), self-aggrandization and ....


Comment preview: The coat worn by Frank Morgan (Professor Marvel/OZ) in the movie wizard of OZ was picked up by the studio at a second hand store looking for props. It turned out to have been originally owned by L Frank Baum, who wrote the book. If true (some suspect the ....


Comment preview: I find it interesting when we look back as far as Bill Clinton as Governor he obviously has a very close relationship with CIA director of Intelligence George H.W. Bush who moves to Vice President under Reagan within 3 years of his CIA role. Check informat ....


Comment preview: Well originally I was dating his sister for a while in college. Since we're both out of state we never met each other's families, but we both knew we live in the same state. Well one drunk party I got curious and hooked up with someone else. I actually end ....


Comment preview: A woman has her DNA hijacked, and a superclone of her is created by the military in order to used as a living weapon. The clone escapes the facility and goes on a rampage, running from city to city causing as much destruction as she can before the military ....


Comment preview: There was a lady that lived near me growing up that claimed to have reoccurring dreams of being a young man named William right at the beginning of the civil war and before, supposedly the first ones she had were in 1858. She never "unlocked" any past life ....


Comment preview: Sage Francis. Some of my favorite of his lyrical works: [Non-Prophets - The Cure](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MExLBbKig20) >"You're not the traveling type? Then hide your baggage better, before you die a normal death and your write the average letter ....


Comment preview: Contrary to what the modern cult of childhood attitude in society would have you believe, kids aren't all precious, wonderful little special snowflakes born full of natural grace and then progressively corrupted by contact with the world. Physiologically ( ....


Comment preview: Here is [John C. Wright's response to her](http://www.scifiwright.com/2015/06/irene-gallo/). For context, most of his books are published by Tor. An excerpt: > Irene Gallo should have been penning me polite notes of congratulation on receiving an histor ....


Comment preview: Peyote mixed with lsd, mushrooms and marijuana. I had a moment where I thought I was Jesus. [edit] - after tons of requests, I will write up a trip report for your enjoyment tonight (meaning soon) Ok. To properly tell this story, I need a short introducti ....


Comment preview: Super reddit science god RobotRollCall explains it very well [here](http://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/fjwkh/why_exactly_can_nothing_go_faster_than_the_speed/c1gh4x7): >There are a lot of simple, intuitive explanations of this to be had out the ....


Comment preview: As you said, we can accelerate a tiny minuscule particle to just under the speed of light.. By pumping metric fucktons of energy into it. But as to what prevents traveling faster than the speed of light? For that i will link, and quote this wonderful expla ....


Comment preview: There are a lot of simple, intuitive explanations of this to be had out there but I kind of hate them all. You might google around a bit and find discussion of something called "relativistic mass," and how it requires more force to accelerate an object t ....