Great news!

My Webmaster has advised that the security breach that unfortunately occured on this blog over a week ago has been completely fixed. The offending code has been safely removed and new security upgrades have been installed for your protection.

Big thanks to all of you for your patience during this event. You may now feel safe when reading and leaving comments on “Wayne’s Blog.”

Regards,

Wayne C. Long

We have discovered a security breach in our blog which placed an invisible link that downloads “malware” to Windows computers upon loading the page.

This malicious invisible link has been removed and security measures taken to prevent the problem in the future.

If you have visited this blog in the last 3-5 days, there is a chance that the malware was secretly downloaded to your computer. You are advised to use a virus or anti-malware application to check your computer and remove any malicious files it may find.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

Webmaster – LongShortStories.com

Hello subscribers and friends of LongShortStories! I hope you all had a wonderful 4th of July.All those beautiful fireworks displays got me thinking about the creative process. Writers, musicians, visual artists, inventors — all of us engaged in creating something wonderful and unique — I am in awe of you! And why is that?As the submissions arrive for the LongShortStories “Pay It Forward” Challenge short story contest, I can see that your muses are busy whispering in your ears great ideas for stories. Stories bold! Stories beautiful! Stories brave!Like all the creative arts, great short story writing takes a special receptivity to new ways of seeing the world; a vision of seeing what others don’t see; an imagination rich in verbal color and style!What’s your fiction-creating genre of choice?Fantasy, sci-fi, mystery, romance, horror, crime, action-adventure, thriller, detective, Western, or even experimental genres yet to be defined are some of the creative possibilities for your LongShortStories contest entry. Great characters. Great dialogue. Great word play. All these elements combined in a kind of mental alchemy makes a short story a winner.Will your entry be a winner? Will it explode upon the scene like fantastic fireworks?I hope so! The deadline is July 31, 2008 or when I receive the first 100 entries.