Dear Heather Hubler, I was very interested in this particular challenge. After the last few weeks, I feel like I deserve the right to rant, no matter what the restrictions […]
The Return of the Son of Deep Thoughts
No bad read goes unpublished. I was once picked last for solitaire. If bed bugs come from beds, where do cockroaches come from? What is the tooth fairy doing with […]
The Lonely Statement of Brian Moore
What is forgiveness? What could you forgive? I have just read Brian Moore’s “The Statement”. I had no intention of writing this review, but the book has not allowed me to […]
A Review of Rob Sheffield’s “Dreaming the Beatles”
Note: I had this in mind as the anniversary of John Lennon’s death approached, but I never thought it would coincide with the poem I left here. A nice touch, […]
I’ve Always Hated the Water
Note: I wrote this for a particular challenge, but I could not find the right conclusion for it, and it seems to be growing into something much bigger and bolder […]
Waste Disposal: A Love Story
A long time ago…in a suburb far, far away… Stella could not help herself. All these years later, and here she was, back in the hometown that she promised herself […]
Snowflakes Frolic Upon My Nose
When snowflakes frolic upon my nose, sparrows huddle in near naked trees and cardinals sing their joyful prose. * The sunshine withers as darkness grows, and waves crash down in […]
Charlotte FC is Ready to Party
When Major League Soccer became the prominent professional soccer league in the US in 1996, no one could have imagined it would grow into the multi-billion-dollar league it is today. […]
Review of “Love at First Sight”
Hey, I don’t usually review romantic comedies — or dramas — but Love at First Sight has both of that, and even a touch of fantasy and philosophy, so the ninety-minute movie […]
Review of Jack Dann’s The Fiction Writer’s Guide to Alternate History
I’ve always had a keen love of alternate history science fiction. Amazon Prime Video’s The Man in the High Castle series (2015-2019), a mostly brilliant adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s path-breaking 1962 […]