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The Western Sky

A selection of American haiku by Richard Risemberg About fifty years ago, I first encountered haiku, and was profoundly moved.…

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Rootbound: a Novella

Robert Houseman believed he had left his past behind—until 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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Book Publishing Contract #3

27 Apr 2021

Yesterday I signed my third book contract with Basil E. Bacorn Publishing, after sending them what could be considered a sequel to My Turn to Die, which they accepted a…

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

10 Apr 202111 Mar 2022

in Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro has produced yet another novel that is equal parts 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”

30 Mar 2021

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…

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Book Publishing Contract #2!

17 Mar 2021

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”

15 Mar 2021

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”

11 Mar 2021

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…

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Micro-Review: “Blindness”

6 Mar 2021

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…