poem “The Streetcorner at Dawn” 13 Aug 202215 Aug 2022 I am going to "sacrifice" the poem I wrote this morning and post it here, which means that I won't be able to offer to a journal or magazine, since…
Announcement… “Dream House” 17 Sep 202117 Sep 2021 This is the second story of mine that Off Course has published. "Dream House" follows a Los Angeles couple to a house in the city's fabled hills, where the festivities…
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… “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,…
book review Book Review: “The Hidden Dimension,” by Edward T. Hall 1 Nov 20181 Nov 2018 Fortunately this book is available new or used online, as it is a valuable exploration of the way human beings in different times and cultures have interpreted and used space,…
book review Book Review: “Republic of Drivers,” by Cotton Seiler 5 Oct 2018 If you're interested in the cultural matrices that make up US culture, you can't avoid studying the country's obsession with cars. Here's my review of a well-written and thorough study…
Author post Interview with the Author 25 Jun 2018 The first book I put together was a collection of essays, Our Own Day Here, which comprise explorations of urban life in all of its aspects, from the poetry of…
Announcement Crime and Punishment, American-Style 31 Mar 201831 Mar 2018 Lock the doors and latch the windows: it's time to read more noir--if you dare! Yes, I've got another story published in Switchblade: an Anthology of Noir, available now for Kindle,…
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