Description (from Amazon.com) Foreclosures are hitting record highs; unemployment is skyrocketing, and the economy is in shambles. Equally broke and futureless, 28–year–old James Brooke, a graduate architect, coffee-addict, and self–described average nobody has returned to his small hometown in West Ohio. Torn between his fanciful dreams and the need to pay off bills, he struggles…
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Description (from Amazon.com) When the battles begin, can anyone survive when magic meets magic? It is 1865 and three close friends; the immortal magician Celwyn, the automat Professor Xiau Kang, and Bartholomew, a scientist and widower from Sudan, set out on another adventure as they travel to Singapore to fetch the professor’s wife. Their private,…
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Description (from Amazon.com) PrequelSan Francisco, 1865. At first, the immortal peyote-eating magician Celwyn is hired to deliver an automat, Professor Kang, to a priest called Talos. Everything Talos told Celwyn was a lie, and by the time their ship, the Zelda, encounters a terrific storm in the Arctic Circle, Celwyn finds he must reconsider his allegiance. He…
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Description (from Amazon.com) In the dangerous time of Russia’s Great Terror, a knock on the door late at night could mean only one thing! Moscow, 1937. As mortal fear engulfs the capital city, a singular man cements his lethal grip of absolute power over an entire nation. Accusations, mass arrests, executions, and deportations become de…
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Description (from Amazon.com) Life is a book… and every person is a chapter. Everything’s looking up for Robin Walker. It’s 1994 in New York City, and he’s been transferred downtown to the 58th Street Branch Library. Ready to move up the ladder, Robin is excited about the opportunities that await him. But success, personal or…
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Today marks the release of a true literary smörgåsbord of short stories, novellas and bad poetry. I’m talking about my collection Regarding Dead Things on the Side of the Road. For those who have been with me on this writer’s journey for a long time, you may be wondering why this is news. Last year,…
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Journal Entry: NaNoWriMo 2021 Day 1: And So It Begins… So, the alarm went off at 4 AM with a note: “NaNoWriMo Wake Up.” Right. I said I was going to do that. After coffee, a look at the news, a moment of meditation to rid myself of the stink of the news, and another…
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Two years is a long time to review, and these past two years really feel like 20. Still, I think it’s necessary for some of us to look back on where we were and what we’ve accomplished. If anything, it’s a record. While I know it’s not quite December, I still feel the need to…
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In this issue: Big Transit News, the Conference Appearance, Giveaway, New Posts, Sunset on Maior Pales, NaNoWriMo 2021, and Recent Reads (a review).
The following poem was written in the late 1980s, although I don’t remember the year exactly. At that time, I was introduced to free verse poetry through a creative writing class I was taking. What struck me today (for the first time) was the idea of a castle in the sky, one of the central…
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