Blake Schwendiman's Blog and Blook

Science fiction and fantasy are my first love in reading, but I have to say that there is an awful lot of sci-fi and fantasy that I just don't get. Too much of it seems to be so focused on the technology or science or the fantastic elements that the story and the characters take the back seat. I prefer a story that is about characters and people while the genre-specific attributes of the story provide the vehicle for drama.

I recently finished a short story called Semper Nunc which explores some relationships that are interesting to me personally. It is a sci-fi story of just about 4,000 words that I hope to use as a platform for a much larger, more comprehensive story.