This Post Is Not Really About Sex
I keep being pulled away from what I want to do (write, act, direct, create ephemera that is lasting) and into what I need to do (make a living, pay bills, fulfill commitments, be a friend.) The dream is to mesh the two into one glorious existence, but I haven’t yet found the wit or [...]
Post 23 – Writing a Short Story
I love short stories. I have read them all my life. I have had subscriptions to New Yorker, AGNI, Omni, Asimov and other magazines just so I could read the short stories. I have collections from Esquire and the Saturday Evening Post. And, of course, many, many collections of science fiction short stories. I have [...]
Post 19 – The War on Christmas – A Warped Holiday Story
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Post 18 – A Hustler, a Hovel and the Happiest Place on Earth
A version of this story will also be posted on my personal blog, That Would Be Me (dot net). Several day ago a friend posted a note about his most exotic Christmas. He spent it in Tanzania while studying birds. I don’t have any Christmas stories as exotic as his, but my first one in [...]
Post 12 – Coffee And (A Character Study)
Today I thought I’d do something different, and post part of a character study I started writing a few years ago about a married couple and the town they lived in. Someday, I’ll use some of this for a larger piece, perhaps a novel, about the town I grew up in until I was thirteen. [...]






