Announcement… “Howard’s Alley” 10 Mar 2022 My latest short story to appear is "Howard's Alley," in Potato Soup Journal. It's the story of a man who thinks he knows all there is to know about his…
Announcement… “The Silence” 20 Sep 202120 Sep 2021 I'm beginning to like September…yes, another short story out! "The Silence" appears in The Vincent Brothers Review issue #24, a print publication. The story is a conclusion to a loose…
Announcement… “The Return” 13 Jul 2021 Flash Fiction Magazine has just published my story, "The Return," available to all at no cost online. It's a little vignette of life in a homeless camp behind a mall,…
Announcement… “Profile” 27 Jun 2021 My short story, "Profile," is now available on 34th Parallel magazine's issue 87, a vivid, graphics-heavy rag that presents a limited selection of stories and poems amid a dazzle of…
Announcement… “The Rescuer” 25 May 202125 May 2021 My short story, "The Rescuer," has just appeared in issue #29 of The Evening Street Review. this is one of what I call my "River city" series, set in a…
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… “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,…
book review Mini-Review: Patti Smith’s “Year of the Monkey” 6 Oct 20207 Oct 2020 Just finished Patti Smith's Year of the Monkey. Superbly written, with echoes of Pound and Bukowski, among others, and an overall feel similar to chapter 14 in Joyce's Ulysses, with…
Announcement… “Nobody’s Favorite” 24 Jul 2020 My story, "Nobody's Favorite," was just published online in The Abstract Elephant Magazine. Yes, you can read it for free in a journal with a peculiar moniker! (The name refers…
Author post… Musings on Proust, part 5 13 May 202013 May 2020 I have at last finished with part 2 of tome 2, and I must give Proust some credit: the sentence structure is less tormented now, though the protagonist is more…
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