Burrito Boy

Here's a poem I wrote a couple years back that I recently entered in a poetry contest at my local library. It's a cowboy poem I was inspired to write after reading an anthology of Robert E. Howard's western stories titled The End of the Trail. I didn't win the contest - didn't even get an honorable mention - but I figure the poem is worth posting for people to read.



The End of the Trail



From the moment I drew breath,
my partner was ...

I love thinking up titles for non-existent books - it's a habit I picked up from Lovecraft and Howard - and figured I'd share a few. (Hopefully I'll add more later.) [Now with condescending descriptions of why the titles are clever. Although I'll probably remove those later.]

King of the Red Coast: The Invasion of Normandy by Robert E. Howard (A play on the REH story "Queen of the Black Coast" and the idea that he might have gone on to serve in WWII if he hadn't killed ...

Review mwiggins' book P'nP' Soldier. I feel bad because I've had it for a few months now and have hardly worked on it.

Review pruttm's new writeup of his Templar.

Read cptpatriot's story "Justice: Portait of a Teenage Superheroine". This one is the most embarrasing because it's been at least half a year.

Review The Outlaws of Mars by Otis Adelbert Kline for one of the pulp related threads.

Post my adventure idea for the Stonhenge-like ...

Asking questions is the first step of character creation. What's my character's name? What does he do? How and why did he become a hero? These are some of the basic questions everybody asks. But there are others that usually don't get asked, mainly because they seem silly or unimportant, that can help develop a character's background and personality. Here are a few:



Rumble Roses

Who would you like to meet with most right now?
Besides [character's ...