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Family Ties: a Novel

Finders, Losers A lakeside cabin in the Sierra foothills, a canyon village divided between old coots and laid-back hippies, and…

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The Dust Will Answer: a Novel

No Lofts, No Lattes. No Law. 1978: The wave of gentrification has yet to break over downtown Los Angeles, and…

Book Review: Kazuo Ishiguro’s “Klara and the Sun”

in Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro has produced yet another novel that is equal part peculiar and affecting, in this case the story of an advanced AI in humanoid…

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“Two Chicken Platters”

2 Apr 20212 Apr 2021

My second story to be published in The Abstract Elephant Magazine, an odd name for a truly incisive journal, is online now, along with of course many other stories and…

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“Breakout”

My apologies for posting twice in one day, but I had actually forgotten that a short story was scheduled to appear yesterday--making six publications for this month. It's a tale…

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“The Crow Tree”

30 Mar 202130 Mar 2021

So, is this website named after the story, or the story named after the website? Ha: it is neither; the website and the story both were named after a long-lost…

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“Stucco Box”

25 Mar 202125 Mar 2021

My very Californian story, "Stucco Box," is available now (along with a great many other works in various media), from an ambitious new British magazine, En Bloc. The link is…

Book Publishing Contract #2!

This morning I signed the contract with Basil E. Bacorn to publish my dark noir story, "My Turn to Die." Barring some impediment, it should come out in January of…

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“Blank Wall” and “Mud and Salt”

Two of my recent poems have just appeared in the Spring/Summer 2021 issue of The Wayfarer, an excellent compendium of essays, interviews, poems, and regular columns on a variety of…

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“The Waiting Room”

This was a relief: after a February devoid of publications (though fortunately not of acceptances!), one of my short stories has appeared in print and pixel.... "The Waiting Room" is…

Micro-Review: “Blindness”

Blindness, by José Saramago Just finished Saramago's Blindness, a bad choice to read during an actual pandemic, but a excellent if often brutal novel...though it is really more of an extended…

Musings on Proust, Part 9

Proust Goes for a Laugh Proust had a bit of fun at his own expense in a comic bit that he put in is own words for a change, in…