Short Fiction: When Fall the Scales
Golden firelight lovingly caressed the curves of the young woman's bare neck as she stood erect beside the delicate piecrust table. As...
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S. Kirk Pierzchala
- Jan 10, 2021
- 1 min
Poetry Break: Unprepared
Unprepared The grocery cart, over-laden, will careen abandoned through the parking lot of liquid silver puddles Or else the little man...
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S. Kirk Pierzchala
- Dec 30, 2020
- 6 min
A (less miserable) New Year to All!
I honestly cannot say whether my 2020 was worse than what others around the country experienced. Even aside from the burden of dealing...
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S. Kirk Pierzchala
- Nov 25, 2020
- 6 min
Short Fiction: End Game
Her footsteps slapped in a panicked staccato as the woman ran down the street. Like the shadow of a frightened cat, she scurried from...
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S. Kirk Pierzchala
- Sep 13, 2020
- 2 min
UPDATE: What readers are saying about Echoes Through Distant Glass---
More thoughtful feedback for is coming in for my timely and relatable new sci-fi novel, Echoes Through Distant Glass! From Amazon: "This...
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S. Kirk Pierzchala
- Jul 31, 2020
- 1 min
Publisher's note
The second installment in the Beyond Cascadia Series will be entitled Eclipse Rising, not Solitude of Light, as appears in some editions...
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S. Kirk Pierzchala
- Jun 27, 2020
- 2 min
Beyond Cascadia: Book One: Echoes Through Distant Glass
Note: If you don't have a Kindle or a Nook, you can still download those reading apps to your Android device to access ebooks! For...
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S. Kirk Pierzchala
- Jun 27, 2020
- 2 min
What readers are saying about Echoes Through Distant Glass---
Thoughtful feedback for is coming in for my timely and relatable new sci-fi novel, Echoes Through Distant Glass! From Amazon: "This is a...
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S. Kirk Pierzchala
- Jun 27, 2020
- 4 min
Echoes Through Distant Glass: Sample chapter
Chapter 19 “That sign back there—what did it mean?” Tomás Estéban’s sudden query broke the meditative silence in which both men had been...
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S. Kirk Pierzchala
- Jun 27, 2020
- 4 min
That Which does Not Destroy Me...
Fear has always been a big part of my life, from my earliest years. Whether due to genetics, birth order or my upbringing, anticipating...
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S. Kirk Pierzchala
- Jun 27, 2020
- 5 min
Short Fiction: Experts Agree
(my take on some aspects the Covid-19 situation. With apologies to George Orwell) Angela’s foot slipped off the proximity marker. She...
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S. Kirk Pierzchala
- Jun 27, 2020
- 1 min
Poem: Awake
Trudging wide-eyed through the valley of sleep You emerge lethargic, clutching dread like a tattered quilt Trailing dream fragments of...
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S. Kirk Pierzchala
- Jun 24, 2020
- 5 min
Short Fiction: Resolution of Impossible Goals
Warning: Contains strong language. The champagne-hued Lexus slowed to a crawl as Dr. Eric Hill neared the security gates early that...
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S. Kirk Pierzchala
- Jun 3, 2020
- 3 min
Men of the West
"It is an army bred for a single purpose---to destroy the world of men." ----Aragorn, from the Two Towers. The recent, incessant news...
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S. Kirk Pierzchala
- Jan 18, 2020
- 1 min
Poem: Cycles
Funny how, after all the gray dawn coffees, the brushing of teeth, bedtime stories it comes now to the opening and closing of the coop,...
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S. Kirk Pierzchala
- Jan 18, 2020
- 1 min
On the Feast of the Solemnity of the Mother of God
Forth from that meek "yes" rippled the transformation Quark to atom to cell Coursing through tiny limbs, stretching curiously Comfortable...
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S. Kirk Pierzchala
- Jan 17, 2020
- 3 min
Book Learning vs. Life Learning
Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? The plaintive themes of Gaugin's masterpiece seem to run through our lives like...
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