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Rootbound: a Novella

Robert Houseman believed he had left his past behind—util it showed up on his doorstep in the form of Carla…

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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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Solstice

19 Dec 201719 Dec 2017

The latest in a series of poems in my new style, generally rummaging through existential despair and all that stuff.... forget the solstice it’s not a promise winter still waits,…

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Clause and Effect

11 Dec 201711 Dec 2017

Do you love subordinate clauses? I know I do. And how about assonance and alliteration, rhythm and rhyme? Let's face it: they can be as tasty as chocolate. But would…

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Recursions, Part 9: “Finding a Form,” by William H. Gass

7 Dec 20177 Dec 2017

This is the ninth in a series of short critical looks at books of literary criticism. Yes, a writer writing about writers who write about writers! I composed these for…

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Transcending Place

2 Dec 201714 Jan 2018

Place is important in stories: while plots are (or should be) based on actions, actions have to take place in a place--the very phrase "take place" tells us that. Be…

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Two Views of Thanksgiving Gluttony

23 Nov 201723 Nov 2017

I must precede this with a snark alert. Read at your own risk! Yes, it's the time of year when folks complain about falling into tryptophan comas, or of having…

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Our Own Day Here

16 Nov 201718 Nov 2017

Author's note: The ideas I explored in this essay--long ago, at a time before the phrase "identity politics" became current--those ideas are still under vigorous dispute, on both right and…

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On Paper, In Stores

10 Nov 2017

Issue #3 of Scotch Rutherford's Switchblade, an Anthology of Noir, is out now, a fact which particularly interests me as it contains the first short story I have published in…

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The Value of Forgetting

5 Nov 20175 Nov 2017

A good memory is both blessing and curse to a novelist. As with all two-edged weapons, you have to wield it with caution, lest you damage your own self...or in…

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Poetry in Motion

1 Nov 20171 Nov 2017

I seem to be on a roll, as they say of both sandwiches and anyone engaged in something more or less demanding: the little poems I've been writing whilst in…

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Recursions, Part 8: “A Moveable Feast,” by Ernest Hemingway

26 Oct 201727 Oct 2017

This is the eighth in a series of short critical looks at books of literary criticism. Yes, a writer writing about writers who write about writers! I composed these for…