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3 Shorts
Here are three more shorts written in under 15 minutes each at meetings with a Writer's Group I belong to. 1. Write about your favorite character in literature The bell tinkled as he entered and the door closed behind him. Boot heels made an ominous slow thunder on...
Writing Prompt
11/19/24 Prompt: Write about something you've never done before. (15 minutes) Grayson sat in the kitchen in his boxers and moth-worn undershirt with a fresh cup of coffee, alternately blowing gently across the steaming surface and slurping a tiny sip, risking searing...
My AI pledge to you
I want to make a statement and a promise to my friends and family, and to all my readers: I have never used and promise never to use AI to write or even enhance my fiction. My short stories, poems and novels will always be 100% original from my own noodle. (I use an...
The Parable of the Lesbian and the Christian Nationalist
The Mystic told this story: Two people went up to the holy grounds to pray, a Christian nationalist and a lesbian. The first stood by himself with his hands held up to the sky and said, “Lord, I thank you that you have made me upright and holy, not like this lesbian....
Start a Book Club
Last month, when I wrote here exhorting everyone everywhere to take up reading again, I meant it. I hope you, if reading has fallen off your radar, if it has been choked and throttled and stomped by social media into a whimpering orphan like Tiny Tim begging for food,...
Take Up Reading Again
You know you ought to. Perhaps you have even told yourself, say, in the evening after someone convinced you to go with them to see Shakespeare in the Park, or some classical concert or ballet—The Nutcracker or The Messiah at Christmastime, and you came home and said,...
More Reflections on Death
Do suicides experience relief from the painful circumstances that led them to such extreme measures? What if they cross over and find it's somehow worse than staying in their physical bodies? What if people who commit suicide actually find themselves in a place of...
This is what it’s like to be an artist
This is what it's like to be an artist. You fail, and fail, and fail, and fail, and fail, and fail, and fail, and fail, and then you get it right. You have to have a high tolerance for failure, or rather, for continuing after failure. This is some kind of psychotic,...
My faith journey part 4 – Conclusion
Before continuing, I want to say that looking back on those difficult years, I cannot help but think, "What a big baby I was." Of course, in the moment, it was very real, and I cannot deny my own experience of pain and disillusionment. But I never shed blood. I was...
Lastest Review Published on Radix
It's official! I am proud to announce my third publication with Radix Magazine: a review of The Long Invisible by Michael Dechane. Their summer edition has just gone live, and you can read the review here. I included several poems from the collection so you can get a...
