Year: 2014

OtherSpace Reboot: Stormy Weather, Part I

June 7, 2014 Brody No Comments

PDAs throughout the Cape Canaveral facility start blinking and beeping their assigned tones, with the holographic message: “WEATHER WARNING” With a soft hiss the doors to the lab open as Jensen comes to check on the progress of the project. As his PDA beeps he pulls it out and notes the warning. “Weather warning… a…

MUSHes, Online Storytelling, OS Roleplaying Logs, OtherSpace

Hello Kitty? Hello, parental camaraderie

June 6, 2014 Brody No Comments

This column appeared in The Herald-Sun in June 2014: “Ha-ha!” I was walking down Club Boulevard in front of the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, pushing John Michael in the jogging stroller. I glanced to my left at the source of the laughter: A blond-haired man in his 20s, head poking out the…

Journalism, Non-Fiction, Sample Columns

Two war stories, both of D-Day

June 5, 2014June 5, 2014 Brody No Comments

The following article that I wrote appeared in the St. Petersburg Times on June 5, 1994, in honor of the 50th anniversary of D-Day: Villagers cried out “Liberate! Liberate!” when the smelly, unshaven U.S. paratrooper limped into town alone. Private Joe Clancy, a member of the 82nd Airborne’s 307th Engineers, warned them that their celebration…

Journalism, Non-Fiction, Sample News Articles

Ancient Expanse News: Noted Tupai operative missing

June 4, 2014 Brody No Comments

VOR, KAMSHO – Authorities on Kamsho at this hour are reporting that a corporate espionage squad led by a prominent Tupai intelligence operative named Reode was lost in action in the jungles northeast of Vor. At last report, the squad was supposedly under orders from the technology firm Xalomik to investigate exploitation of natural resources…

MUSHes, Online Storytelling, OtherSpace