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 202122 May 2021 (This story was published in The Awakenings Review in January--but Covid had disrupted the organization's work so much that everything's behind schedule. It is now available for purchase online at…
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…
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