by jeffrey | Aug 2, 2026 | Non-fiction
How should I organize this article? I’ll just go ahead and tell you the punchline: my novels and stories for the last 10-15 years are set in what could be called “The City of Man.” Let me explain. World-building is so much fun. It’s part of the...
by jeffrey | Feb 17, 2026 | Non-fiction, Real Life
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...
by jeffrey | Nov 14, 2025 | Non-fiction, Real Life
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,...
by jeffrey | Nov 10, 2025 | Non-fiction, Real Life
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...
by jeffrey | Sep 21, 2025 | Non-fiction, Uncategorized
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...
by jeffrey | Aug 31, 2025 | Non-fiction, Uncategorized
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...
