Stephen Mark Rainey

Tuesday, July 21, 2026Well, Kimberly and I were supposed to to leave for a ten-day trip to Michigan early this morning — Greensboro to Midland/Bay City/Saginaw Airport by way of Detroit — but during the night, we received an alert that our outbound flight was delayed long enough that we'd miss our connection to MBS. […]

Continued from "Michigan Misadventures, Madness, & Merriment, Part 1" Monday, July 27, 2026 Today was the day: meeting very good friends and fellow geocachers, Skyhawk63 (a.k.a. Tom) & Punkins19 (a.k.a. Linda) for a boat trip out to Power Island, a few miles north of Traverse City in Lake Michigan, to hunt the oldest cache in Michigan ("Power Island" GC35, […]

KJK Publishing's The Horror Collection: Fear Edition, edited by Kevin J. Kennedy is now in the wild! This volume includes my story, "Awakening," along with 18 other fearsome tales. The list of authors whose work graces this one tells me I'll be in some damned fine literary company. Despite the fact I've overcome the arachnophobia […]

The blanket of smoke from the Canadian wildfires has begun to seep over southern Virginia and even farther south, enough to be seen and smelled from our house. The view above is looking down toward Lake Lanier, our neighborhood lake; below that is a shot Ms. B. took from the far end of the lake […]