Announcement… “Stardust Melody” 10 Jan 202110 Jan 2021 If you'd like a moment of distraction, a very short story of mine entitled "Stardust Melody" has just appeared in Zodiac Literary Journal. (The story does touch on social issues,…
Announcement… “The Toy Thief” 2 Jan 20212 Jan 2021 This is a bit of an odd announcement, as you cannot yet actually obtain this issue of The Awakenings Review on its website--Covid has disrupted the organization's work so much…
Author post… Musings on Proust, Part 8 27 Dec 202027 Dec 2020 If only Proust were not so parsimonious with his comic writing! Just laughed through a short section in the salon scene of "Le coté de Guermantes," book II, with Mme.…
Announcement… “Road Ends” 19 Dec 202019 Dec 2020 A new short story of mine has just been published in Off Course, a journal of State University of New York at Albany. It's the tale of two men who…
Announcement Ten of Fifteen 19 Dec 2020 Just used up ten of my Warholian fifteen minutes yesterday, when Chat & Spin radio in the UK interviewed me about my novels. The interview is available in their archives…
Announcement… “In Those Days” 20 Nov 202020 Nov 2020 The Bangalore Review has just published my story, "In Those Days," available to read for free online. This is my second appearance in this journal, which is based, as you…
Announcement… “Legacy of Ashes” 2 Nov 20202 Nov 2020 I don't usually post twice in one day, but those pesky editors don't always coordinate their releases, seeing that I publish in magazines based all over the English-speaking world, and…
Announcement… “A Yellow Tea Mug” 2 Nov 2020 Et voila! Another story has appeared in print (or should I say pixel) overnight: a somewhat abstract, or abstracted, musing on community in our difficult times…read "A Yellow Tea Mug"…
Announcement… “Return to Grace” 19 Oct 202019 Oct 2020 My short story, "Return to Grace," has just appeared in the October/November issue of Eclectica. Tom Dooley is an exacting editor, for I was last in his rag in 1997,…
Announcement… “The Finn Girl, or Woman” 1 Oct 202013 Oct 2020 My short story, "The Finn Girl, or Woman," has just appeared in the first volume of what hopes to be an annual collection, called Fiction Junkie. This is a new…
