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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Time travel has been written about so many times, there can’t be anything fresh in it. I decided to play with time travel once—and only once.
“Terminal Conversations” appeared in Travel a Time Historic, an anthology published in 2005.
In this issue: New Posts, Book News, Past Week’s Work.
Inspiration: noun \ˌin(t)-spə-ˈrā-shən, -(ˌ)spi-\ A divine influence or action on a person believed to qualify him or her to receive and communicate sacred revelation. (Merriam-Webster) Inspiration. That divine breath of literary genius given to us as sacred revelations wherein we all ascend from poor writer to rich author. Or maybe it’s just the crap that…
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I sat and stared at holes in my wall one day before I started writing this. I’m pleased with how everything flowed together. In 2021, this story won in the Adult Category for the All Pikes Peak Writes annual competition, sponsored by the Pikes Peak Library District.
In 2002 (or so), a writer friend (the-great-and-not-quite-as-unknown-as-me Eric A. Jackson) and I were discussing what makes good fiction. At the time, he had recently loaned me a copy of Bentley Little’s The Collection, a great book of short stories. One of those stories included a dead llama. Naturally, the discussion on what made good…
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