Announcement… 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…
Announcement… “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…
Announcement… “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…
Announcement… “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…
Announcement… “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…
Announcement… “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…
book review 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…
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.…
