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Journey through the Shadowlands: a Middle-Grade Fantasy Novel

Journey through the Shadowlands, published by Basil E. Bacorn Publishing, is a middle-grade fantasy novel with a social conscience, following…

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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…

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Quiet on the Surface

7 Nov 2021

It’s been quiet on the surface here at the blog for a few weeks now, but underneath, the currents are surging. So to give you a glimpse of what’s happening…

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In Print

17 Oct 202117 Oct 2021

My two copies of The Vincent Brothers Review arrived today, bearing my story, "The Silence," as well as eight other short stories, twenty-nine poems, four nonfiction works, and eleven pieces…

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“The Silence”

20 Sep 202120 Sep 2021

I'm beginning to like September…yes, another short story out! "The Silence" appears in The Vincent Brothers Review issue #24, a print publication. The story is a conclusion to a loose…

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“Bubbe”

17 Sep 2021

Today my short story, "Bubbe," was published in Chillfiltr Review. I is also to be presented as an audio recording, by an actor; in fact, the editor asked me for…

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“Dream House”

17 Sep 202117 Sep 2021

This is the second story of mine that Off Course has published. "Dream House" follows a Los Angeles couple to a house in the city's fabled hills, where the festivities…

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“Camera Man”

10 Sep 202111 Sep 2021

A new short story of mine has just appeared in Tint Journal. "Camera Man" is about love death, memory, and, in fact, an old camera that brings about a new…

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Musings on Proust, Part 10

9 Sep 202110 Sep 2021

I finally finished Proust's Sodome et Gomorrhe last night. I read it slowly in bits and pieces, because "M," Proust's narrator, becomes truly insufferable in this volume. Whether Proust meant…

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Estivation….

29 Aug 2021

The summer doldrums seem to be a cyclical affliction of the publishing world. Maybe it's because so many editors and staffers go on vacation, especially those work work on magazines…

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Cover Quote (A Teaser)

16 Aug 202116 Aug 2021

With my novel, My Turn to Die, tentatively scheduled for release in January by Basil E. Bacorn Publishing, I decided to start looking for a good cover quote to help…

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“The Return”

13 Jul 2021

Flash Fiction Magazine has just published my story, "The Return," available to all at no cost online. It's a little vignette of life in a homeless camp behind a mall,…