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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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In the Material World

19 Jan 2018

The picture heading this post shows one of my novels, Family Ties, in the new books display at the Echo Park branch library here in Los Angeles. This means new…

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The Perils of Pals

9 Jan 20189 Jan 2018

Here is a tale--sadly, a true one--that I penned about twenty years ago. It's a story not so much of sailing as of sailors, especially weekend sailors and the innocence…

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When “Likes” Attract “Likes”–and Nothing Else

1 Jan 20182 Jan 2018

In electronics, the signal-to-noise ratio is the proportion of information carried in a transmission versus the hums, buzzes, and clicks in the carrier medium, be it radio waves or packet…

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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…