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… “Moonlight Sonata” 31 Mar 2020 One of my favorite little stories, "Moonlight Sonata," has just appeared in Brilliant Flash Fiction's spring issue. Read it online for free, along with a lot of other good tales,…
Announcement… “The Beginning of Time” 12 Feb 202012 Feb 2020 Another flash fiction piece appeared today: my thousand-word story, "The Beginning of Time," available online at Quantum Shorts, a site run by the Centre for Quantum Technologies in Singapore. All stories they…
Author post… American Fugue: Hemingway’s “Big Two-Hearted River” 30 Jul 20182 Aug 2018 Some scholarly-minded sorts have made a parlor game of trying to identify actual landmarks in Hemingway's masterful short story, "Big Two-Hearted River." They complain that the burnt town named as…
Author post Everything New Is Old Again 28 Aug 201718 Sep 2017 This morning, I glanced over from where I was reading to see my wife listening to music on her smartphone. I've done this too, though reluctantly: I don't mind plugging…
Author post Personal History, Part I 10 Aug 201712 Aug 2017 I confess that I wrote this years ago for an earlier website, but since it's all looking backwards, it still holds true. "Personal History, Part II" is still being written,…
Author post Stranger than Fiction 6 Jul 20176 Jul 2017 Sometimes, truth really is stranger than fiction, and you have to leave some of it out to make the generous lie of writing at all believable. A good example is…
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