Announcement… “The Empty Room” 7 Feb 20237 Feb 2023 My experimental short story, "The Empty Room," has just appeared in Del Sol Review. Though it's necessary peculiar, I think readers will find a certain pleasing tension in it. It…
Author post Why Noir? 16 Jul 2022 I have published around eighty short stories in the last four years. (Those who are interested can see the list here, with links.) Most of them are straight literary tales,…
Author post Reading Time 24 Oct 201924 Oct 2019 No doubt this has happened to you: you mention a book you've recently read and loved, and your interlocutor immediately blurts out, "Oh, I just love reading too, but I…
Announcement… “Rain Falls Like Rain” 4 Feb 2019 Another short story of mine has just appeared in the UK online journal, Fiction on the Web. It's, again, a thousand-word flash-fiction bit, so take a minute or five to…
Author post River of Night 19 Mar 201819 Mar 2018 darkness surges from the east slow silent inexorable, while day grows timid and flows over the western horizon, diluting a glimmering sea — or so we say we who see the universe…
Author post 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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