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For the first time in nearly a decade I sat down at my computer, stared at a blank screen, and wrote something unique. I must admit, at first that blinking cursor was like being taunted by the French soldiers in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, but once I brainstormed and thought up a tentative title they keys started clickity-clackiting and a scene was born.

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Hope you all had a pleasant and safe Christmas/Hannukah/Whatever.  I actually enjoyed mine, for once. And yes, I am a hypocrite consumerist whore, but how can you not be when you have family who enjoys exchanging gifts? One can only be a scrooge for so long.

Anyway, the following isn’t all that awe-inspiring. To be honest, there’s a hidden message in there that working around kind of inhibited my creative control during the drunken hour that it took to write up. If you see the message, and take offense, then maybe you need to reevaluate your religion and how you celebrate it. From me the athiest to you the believer; maybe it’s time for you and God to get reaquainted. You and I may disagree about how magical that Jesus fellow was, but I think we can agree that he had some pretty good ideas. Maybe you should start practicing them instead of just preaching them. Santa Clause and The Bunny Rabbit just aren’t cutting it.

- Joshua Frank Bartalomy: updated122609

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This is something very rough. I was looking through some of my writing, and came across the beginning of a story that I started a very long time ago. I had to re-read it to remember what it was all about. It’s an odd story, and this excerpt doesn’t explain the concept at all. It does, however, create a pretty interesting environment.

This is a story I won’t be revisiting for a very long time. I like the overall concept, but it’s a short story at best, and I am trying to focus more on reviving my larger projects at this time. But I feel that it’s unique and strange enough to share. If I had a history of my writing here, I probably wouldn’t be sharing this. But this is a new site and you really don’t understand my style yet.

I present: The Immortal Mr.Barrington – a very unfinished short story by Joshua Frank Bartalomy

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I wrote “The Something” about a decade ago. I was writing a lot those days, about 10,000 words a day (seriously), but didn’t feel like I was really accomplishing much. I was piling the words on, but they didn’t amount to very much. So, I tried a couple of writing exercises and the results were some of my best writing to date.

Unfortunately, I have lost all copies of the other stories. I’m still hoping to be reunited with them one day… but every year that passes is another year where my hope fades a bit more, and one day I’ll probably give up completely on ever seeing them again.

I was reunited with one though, and if given the choice between the three, this is the one that I would have chosen.

I started hoping that I would be a horror fiction writer. The next Stephen King. But it’s not where my passion laid. So one of my experimental writings was a children’s story.  And this is it.

It’s not so much a story for children, rather it’s a story about a child, and told through his eyes. It’s a story about a young imaginative boy who strays from his camping family, and, along with all the creatures in the forest, discover and experience the death of “something”. Something alien to the forest, but not so much to earth. Something nearly invisible but very real. Something that first seems fun, and becomes something sad.

I present: The Something – a short story by Joshua Frank Bartalomy: Dedicated to Shannon Larratt Read more…

I guess the first post of a new website should be really epic and well thought out. But I would rather just get it up and over with, so here it is. Later on we can talk about what this site is going to be and what I’ll be posting here. All you really have to know at this point is that I am an aspiring writer who’s working on getting back into the game after a decade long absence, and I am an opinionated asshole. I’m sure we’ll get along just fine.

Much love,

Joshua Frank Bartalomy (aka Jofaba)

ps. Check out my Flickr page, as well as my hot ass mug on the About Me page.