So, today I wrote 3,000 words and it was like pulling teeth. Some days it is a melancholy adventure, lonely, and lacking in pizzazz. Writing is a solitary undertaking and it is not for the faint of heart, especially if you’re narcissistic and/or neurotic. Sometimes it is like building a house of cards in a…
As far as I know, everybody loves free stuff. So, I’ve decided to publish some of my stories here on my website that are completely free to read. Some are flash, some are longer pieces, some are stream of consciousness, some are vignettes, and some defy classification, description, or reason, but all of them are…
The end of one decade and the beginning of another . . . and here we are now. Last year, in 2019, I completed a collection of stories titled “The Black Hound and Other Stories.” It was the culmination of a series of stories I had worked on over the years (two decades or more)…
The paragraph is one of the most important primary building blocks, next to the word and a sentence, in written language that is used to provide unity and form a distinct section in a written work beginning on a new line and containing a single topic, theme, or idea. In its simplest form it can…
The Black Hound and Other Stories contains thirteen sinister stories that are sure to get under your skin and leave you with a delightful sense of foreboding. Within these tales, a black hound runs out in the road in a near miss hit and run and brings to light a brutal crime of passion. Three…
By Emmanuel Paige It is important to backup data on a computer for safe keeping on portable storage or on the cloud, and keep it protected if catastrophe strikes. Unprepared computer users can keep important files and documents stored on their computer for years, and without warning, eventually a system failure will strike that results…
By Emmanuel Paige Computers are machines that compute complex math problems and “one definition of a modern computer is that it is a system: an arrangement of hardware and software in hierarchical layers” (Ceruzzi). At first computers were large and cumbersome and dominated entire rooms in buildings, but currently they have been reduced to microstructures…
By Emmanuel Paige Self-publishing has recently taken on a significant level of interest and has become a modern phenomenon whereby any writer can have their work published in book form and distributed directly to the public without a traditional publisher, editor, or anyone to stand in the way. Although there is not always a vetting…
The latest collection of short stories from author Emmanuel Paige. This is an exceptional collection of short stories titled In Wrath and Fire: 30 Dark Tales due to be released on January 1st, 2020. “In Wrath and Fire,” the title story of this collection, is a tale about Ivan Moorhead, a sometime writer of suspense stories and…
My name is Emmanuel Paige and I am a writer of fiction, as well as non-fiction. I recently published a collection of short stories titled The Black Hound and Other Stories.