The project concept was simple, if insane: write a story a day, by hand, every day for a year.

Okay, no, not quite that: go ahead and take 1 day off every month. I insist.

That's InkStains.

It took a while to type up almost 250,000 words, but now I'm releasing all these short pieces -- mostly fiction, but also memoirs, memories, articles, essays, and oddities -- in monthly doses.

You can find the e-version of January in a variety of places for free. Smashwords. Barnes & Noble. You can go to Amazon and buy a print version.

E-versions of other months will come out on the first day of the month. You can, if you wish, read one story a day every day for the year.

As you do so, in 2015 I'm doing it again: another InkStains series, this time with monthly themes. Wish me luck