Announcement California Dreamin’ 2 Jun 2020 Times are tough: not only do we have the new coronavirus to watch out for, which requires constant vigilance against an invisible assailant, but we have the all-too-visible assailants driven…
Announcement… Novella Time 20 May 2020 I have begun writing a novella, that odd in-between genre, much too long to be a short story, but rarely long enough to be called a novel in most literary…
Announcement… Live Virtual Reading 11 May 202011 May 2020 Live events being off the table for now, Rich Soos, editor at Cholla Needles, just set up a virtual table: he asked all the poets who have been featured lately…
Announcement… “The Wedding” 1 May 20201 May 2020 My short story, "The Wedding," has just come out in North Dakota Quarterly, published by the University of Nebraska Press. The fiction editor cut the short last paragraph, but the…
Announcement… “The Mechanical Dancer” 19 Apr 202019 Apr 2020 A new story of mine has just appeared in Potato Soup Journal. Available free to read online! Go to: "The Mechanical Dancer" Although this is a stand-alone story, it is…
Announcement… “Six Poems” 7 Apr 20207 Apr 2020 Here we go: issue #41 of Cholla Needles magazine just came out, and it includes six of my recent poems, being: "To the Remembered" "Has to Be" "This Box of…
Announcement… “Moonlight Sonata” 31 Mar 2020 One of my favorite little stories, "Moonlight Sonata," has just appeared in Brilliant Flash Fiction's spring issue. Read it online for free, along with a lot of other good tales,…
Announcement Distraction from These Epidemic Days 19 Mar 2020 Please forgive me for indulging in promotion during these stressful days, but this is at least in part a promotional site. If that bothers you, there are plenty of book…
Announcement Not a Writing Credit, but…. 17 Mar 202017 Mar 2020 In September of last year, a new magazine, Rock and a Hard Place, published my story "Field of Honor" in their inaugural issue. Their second issue has just been released…
Announcement… “The East Side of Pershing Square” 16 Mar 202016 Mar 2020 Another story published today: my very short crime tale, "The East Side of Pershing Square," is available as a free read on Akashic Books' "Mondays Are Murder" series. One requirement…
