Staring down the barrel of my thirtieth birthday I realize I've taken a few stabs at writing in the past but never anything significant, mostly just the odd short story or article. I've mostly been happy reading whatever others produce while idly fantasizing about a life spent contributing my own notches to the thrice wrapped belt of literacy. No more! In the last few months I've been saturated with ideas for stories and I'm finally sitting down to smear these suckers onto paper.