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Gracing Along the Edge of Reality

After reading A Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and the last part of On the Road. That sense that here I am touching more than myself, but, fantastically, and with dumb luck, I have stumbled toward the top of a ravine […]

The Bone and the Flower: New Frontiers of Literature or Sexual Fantasy?

Guernica, which is one of the best online culture magazines out there today, just posted their November 1 edition, and it’s quite a compendium of stories, interviews, essays, art, and poetry. They offer a pretty insightful interview with Junot Diaz […]

Implosions of America Short Story About to Self-Destruct

Sometime this evening, I will be pulling the plug on my post of the title story to my new collection, Implosions of America. Read it now, save it, or print it out. And remember that November 16 is the release […]

Implosions of America: An Election Story

With two weeks to go before our national election, I have had posted the following election short story…but it’s gone now. When a story implodes it’s an ugly site. You should have seen it. 32 years ago we had an election […]

Cover Reveal: Implosions of America

There are fabulous, creative artists everywhere in this country. I am so grateful to photographer extraordinaire Warren Harold for use of two of his images of a building implosion for both the cover of my new collection of stories and […]

Everyone Gets a Scarlet Letter: Love in the Time of Implosions

We’ve been through more than a decade of struggle now, haven’t we? There’s that economy thing that’s been eating at all of us this past three years. But there’s also the insanity of extremist violence and murderous intent directed randomly […]

Goodreads GiveAway: Signed Copy of Beyond the Will of God

If you’re a Goodreads member, you should enter my special GiveAway offer of an autographed paperback edition of Beyond the Will of God. The GiveAway contest is running from October 12 thru October 23. This is a worldwide competition. As […]

The Sins of Multi-Media: Gliding the Electric Book

I am in the process of developing a musical edition of my novel Beyond the Will of God. Like many of my stories, this psychedelic mystery is at least partially about music. References to everything from bootleg Grateful Dead songs […]

When I Noticed We Stopped Thinking: Over Sangria and Marinated Meat

It was a warm weekend evening in September of 1985. We sat in our small urban backyard, pink clouds over-head, starting on a second pitcher of Sangria after a shish-ka-bob and salad dinner. I was more or less happy. I’d […]