Jason Ray Morton
Bio
I have always enjoyed writing and exploring new ideas, new beliefs, and the dreams that rattle around inside my head. I have enjoyed the current state of science, human progress, fantasy and existence and write about them when I can.
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Stories (795/0)
STOP! Don't Pull Your Hair Out Over Slow Reads Or Writers' Frustration On Vocal +. Even The Great Authors Of Our Time, Like You, Struggled With Writing When They Were Starting Their Journey. Just Ask The Most Successful Vocal Writer In History.
"A writer writes, always." -Billy Crystal in Throw Momma From The Train So, like everybody else on Vocal or the over 25,000 members of Vocal +, you want to be a writer, or at least parts of you do. You've always had ideas in your head. Maybe, over the years, you've imagined you would write a book. You have written short stories, started a novel, tried your hand at poetry, or even put together a manual for your regular nine to five gig and thought to yourself, "I should have been paid for that." A writer writes, always.
By Jason Ray Morton 3 years ago in Motivation
Death And The Marigolds
June 1st, 1999 Beneath a near-endless sky of thick, gray clouds, in a city surrounded by a vast forest of green that only gapped for streams, trails, and highways, people wandered the streets as the day turned to night. The Wabash Festival was an annual festival that stretched from city hall to Wabash Lake on the south side of town. Along the side of the lake a carnival was set up, a Ferris wheels' lights visible from the front doors to the Wabash City Government Complex. It was a beautiful place, with quaint restaurants, shops, and friendly people wandering the streets enjoying the festival and the attractions that came to town. Everybody was excited about the big fireworks show at the end of the night.
By Jason Ray Morton 3 years ago in Fiction
Fear The Wrath Of The Reaper
Walking into his sparsely furnished apartment late on a Thursday night Jackson Mills was exhausted after a long week and what felt like an even longer debriefing. Hours of questions and nothing changed. The job was done, nobody was the wiser, and he was finally back stateside just to be pulled off a plane by the Smith squad, two innocuous agents sent to escort him. They were little more than the director's personal errand boys, neither of them being more than thirty, and this was probably their first assignment out of the office.
By Jason Ray Morton 3 years ago in Fiction
FX'S Archer, A Live-Action Feature Length Movie
In the realm of fantasy movie releases, there are far too many possibilities to cover in just one writing session. We could go on and on about a remake of Buck Rogers, Flash Gordon, a reboot of Miami Vice, and what will no doubt be even more Star Wars films by Disney. Hollywood has little imagination left and has been forced to rely on Disney pulling from comic book franchises and studios that keep rehashing old material. This idea, however, would prove to be as funny a spoof movie as I've ever seen.
By Jason Ray Morton 3 years ago in Geeks
I Met Your Mother One Weekend In Shark Infested Waters
What were they thinking? For that matter, what was I thinking? I was a design engineer and while designing this marvel of luxury and extravagance was fun and certainly lucrative, staying in one of these things certainly was never on my bucket list. When Jim Halburn came to me with the proposal, why didn't I just say no? I surely could have explained to him that I had other projects to work on, family commitments, even a girlfriend that needed me. Here I was, however, living twenty feet below sea level in one of the world's premier underwater hotels. I would have rather they not chosen the name Atlantis, however. That was an awful choice of names for a place to put up to five hundred people.
By Jason Ray Morton 3 years ago in Fiction
Survival Sometimes Means Having To Face The Most Impossible Circumstances And Having To Run Directly In The Opposite Direction Of What You Might Think Of Doing Before You're Faced With Making A Decision.
I've thought about this for a while, and I think it is a story worth telling. This is a story of survival, mental health battles, trauma, and loss. I say survival first because that is the most important part of this story or any story in this crazy world, survival.
By Jason Ray Morton 3 years ago in Confessions
Chocolate Cake, A Boxcutter, and Murder
I love Amsterdam this time of year. So, when I was asked by the director to take a trip to Amsterdam and clean up a mess, all I asked him was when do I leave? Tomorrow morning, he answered me without missing a beat. I had been booked on a flight out of Laguardia.
By Jason Ray Morton 3 years ago in Fiction
What If The Election Audits Did Go In Favor Of Donald Trump And What Might The Supreme Court, The Military, Congress, And The Trump Supporters Do If The Unimaginable Should Happen?
After a day of our favorite ex-president being in the news talking about his big tech suits, and more than a dozen reporters that have published their opinions and legal opinions on the question of the forensic election audits, I decided to sit down and take my own look at what might be should the unimaginable actually happen.
By Jason Ray Morton 3 years ago in The Swamp
What Do John Krasinski, Scarlett Johansson, Charlize Theron, Samuel L. Jackson, Ryan Reynolds, John Cena, Emily Blunt, and Vin Diesel Have In Common With A Baby And A Rabbit?
After a long year of everything going straight to streaming Hollywood is finally starting to get back to normal. This weekend there are several big-name and big-budget movies at the theaters to enjoy. So, grab the kids, the wife, husband, significant other, or just a good friend, and head out to the movies this weekend.
By Jason Ray Morton 3 years ago in Geeks
At World End
Morning came faster than I thought it would and Johnny was starting to wake up after sleeping in a bed for the first time in two years. I couldn't go anywhere without the pooch, not even to the lavatory. As I stood there, half-awake, trying to relieve myself for the first time today, Johnny stood watching me carefully. I could tell that he was in a hurry to go for a walk, and probably do the same thing. After I finished, tucking myself back in the khaki pants I found in the closet when I got out of bed, I tapped my thigh, motioning for my trusted pal to follow.
By Jason Ray Morton 3 years ago in Fiction