Hugh J. O'Donnell

Hello Readers!
Welcome to The Way of the Buffalo, my new weekly roundup newsletter! If you are receiving this via email, it is because you’ve subscribed to my WordPress blog, and they have rolled out email integration. My plan going forward will be to continue blogging during the week, with a digest post on Saturdays with links to the individual posts. I’ll also be including announcements, links, and other thoughts here, with a bonus piece of flash fiction or a serialized story at the end.
Thanks for reading!

This Week in Reviews:
Since it was Valentine’s Day, this week’s reviews were romantic. I hope you had a good week, wether or not you were spending it with someone.

The Godzilla Valentine’s Day Special – Hugh Likes Comics

I’m only a casual fan of giant monsters, but this one-shot issue was a ton of fun.

A Market of Dreams and Destiny – Hugh Likes Fiction

This was one of my favorite novels from last year, and the narrator crushed it for the audiobook version.

This week’s fiction – “Captcha”

Click on all the images that contain crabs, the computer instructed. I stared at the collection of underwater creatures, choosing the images. My mouse hovered over the last decapod as I considered the features of the creature in the image. It looked like a crab. I clicked on it, and hit ‘submit.’
A dialog box cheerfully informed me that I had failed the security captcha, and that my login would be locked for the next hour. I sighed and closed my laptop. Not for the first time, I was a victim of carcinization.
The squat lobsters had gotten me again.

Want more flash fiction? Check out my collect, The Mountain’s Shadow!

Have a great week!