Anyone interested in reading my latest book Night of the Hell Hounds and Other Stories from the Ridgewood Chronicles, Kindle Edition at Amazon, can follow this link: https://www.amazon.com/Night-Hell-Hounds-Ridgewood-Chronicles-ebook/dp/B00AY2K1H6. Anyone interested in the paperback version can follow this link: https://www.amazon.com/Night-Hell-Hounds-Ridgewood-Chronicles/dp/B0CQHDH44C/. I also have an author site via Amazon. You can view it at https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B00B356PPU to see … Continue reading Book of Stories
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The Poet, Poem 2023-0112
The boy who lost his mother gnarled like a bear— tough bear he. Away from the bestial, he had softness in his eyes that laughed even when he and his words were sharp and sometimes ambiguous. He showed the plumpness of his belly to his closest friends and grunted like a pig and poet laughing … Continue reading The Poet, Poem 2023-0112
New Year, New Ideas, New Goals
I love writing fiction. It brings out my inner child. The story world of my books is a playground in my mind where my characters can run as fast as they can, jump far, fly if they need to, fall and skin their knees if they must, and end up heroes if I want them … Continue reading New Year, New Ideas, New Goals
When I, a Boy, Poem 2022-1113
I awoke to frost and snow outside my home and became nostalgic for those winter days in the country when I was young and winter brought excitement and joy of walking the woods and watching the play of nature. Enjoy a poem I wrote about that nostalgia when I was courting a local girl and … Continue reading When I, a Boy, Poem 2022-1113
A Bit on Writing and Art
With NaNoWriMo in full swing, I’ve been seeing a lot of fiction writers write about plot. I’m a short story writer, but I’ve been through plenty of classes for novelists that teach Aristotle’s 3-act structure of Beginning, Middle, and End, and the popular 4-act structure (which lengthens and halves the Middle section) for novels. I … Continue reading A Bit on Writing and Art
Bones In the Sand, Story 2022-1031
It’s Halloween. “Bones In the Sand” is another short story from the 1990s. I wrote this one in 1991 for my children, especially for my son. Now it’s here for the rest of the world to read. And it has skeletons in it for all you bone lovers to enjoy on this Halloween. Enjoy. It … Continue reading Bones In the Sand, Story 2022-1031
Secrets and Haunted: Two Stories, 2022-1030
Tomorrow is Halloween. To prepare for the occasion, I perused some of my old spooky tales, and now I’m posting two stories for your reading pleasure. “Secrets” is a quickie about someone with secrets sitting with a fortune teller. It began in the 1980s and grew only so far and stopped, so I left it … Continue reading Secrets and Haunted: Two Stories, 2022-1030
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