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Want to preview? Here you go . . . 15 Nov 2010 | 09:55 am
Interested in previewing my novel? Here’s chapter one available to you: https://www.createspace.com/Preview/1073630 (The novel’s title is The Loyal Treatment.)
The novel is out there . . . 11 Nov 2010 | 08:23 am
Thanks to the wonderful people at CreateSpace, my novel The Loyal Treatment is now out there, available for purchase. Here’s the link – give it a look. http://www.createspace.com/3497585
Excerpt 9 Oct 2010 | 06:51 am
If it were all about you then my words might deflect like sunrays off your windshield, blinding the rest of us, leaving us wondering when the tick of the clock might lead to something new, som...
Waking Up 7 Oct 2010 | 09:27 am
Waking up from more than just a good night’s sleep or a dark and troubled dream, waking up from something old and rusted through, from being and becoming who you thought I might have been. That...
Cue 2 Oct 2010 | 07:40 am
Timpani drums curl in a J in the back of the room, buffeted by the brass and the woodwinds in rows. The boys hold their mallets, ready for their measures, waiting, wishing their parts were bigg...
Autumn 29 Sep 2010 | 07:38 am
Outside by the windowpane, branches claw and scrape the glass. Windswept blooms collapse and fall to grass gone brown. Sparrows perch upon a limb and chirp, their songs pitched higher than yeste...
Farewell 27 Sep 2010 | 04:33 am
So this is farewell – Soon I’ll be waving my hand from somewhere else (I suppose we all will); Soon the lights will be turned low and our shadows will fade like mist; Soon the curtain will fall...
Clear Night for Ursa Minor 24 Sep 2010 | 11:25 am
Golden honeysuckle sits at the creekbed’s edge. You stand, arms crossed, under the blue-black cover of sky. You wait, watch. You map out the night, tracing a line in the red clay with bare toes....
Image and Likeness 23 Sep 2010 | 03:56 am
Maybe Pope Leo the Great, after meeting Attila the Hun, wiped his brow and wished he could just hang it up. That was years ago – now such meetings are rare for me. On the whole I am a power for g...
A Dream Referred 21 Sep 2010 | 03:55 am
Nighttime in the city, down an alley, you might go looking for it – yes, your dream. But there’s no way to find it, to redeem some moment from your past, or to rally. Not there – no – and maybe no...
