• Closed

    For various reasons, this blog is no longer being serviced. WordPress will leave it up until it expires next March, but it is no longer active, and nothing new will be added. Those with an interest can find me and several other authors over at https://threadsthatbind.net/ Have a wonderful journey wherever you roam!

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  • Distractions

    Last week in a post titled I Paused My Game to Be Here, I delved into the Great Distractor, which I essentially named as the incredible, immersive stories and adventures to be found in the modern videogame. This is true. Anyone who’s sunk a hundred or more hours in unravelling the threads woven into Skyrim,…

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  • So, what’s happened since that last novel ten years ago? Quite a bit, actually, just nothing involving words on a page. I had a long-nurtured writing habit of rising early to work on whatever project was the conte du jour, but though it was still easy enough to sit down at the desk, the words…

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  • Brass & Coal

    Back when I was last active, in 2016 it was, I penned this bit of fluff for an anthology of steampunk stories being curated by one Mr. Bryce Raffle, a writer best known at the moment for co-authoring a series of children’s dinosaur stories. Yes, the man has range! Brass & Coal was the tongue…

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  • Good morning, friends, and I hope it finds you well. This week I offer the first of what I hope won’t be too many excuses, but it was just too much for me to get a post ready for this week. You see, on April 22nd my wife of fifty years had knee replacement surgery.…

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  • Getting Lucky

    I’m pleased to announce that I’ve added the sixth story to the Diner of Dread series. This is a short chilling piece about a middle-aged nobody who stumbles into a prize he hardly dared dream about. There’s a fine line, of course, between dreams and nightmares, and it is so easy to cross… Join me,…

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  • Let’s put the disclaimer first: I didn’t say good writing, I said prolific writing. Had I been good, good enough to convince the professionals I was sending my work to, you would be finding my name across best-seller lists on every platform. You don’t, and I’m convinced that the quality of my writing is the…

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  • Membranes

    Good day to all my fans of the spooky and bizarre. Today I’ve got a nasty one for you! I wrote this at least a decade ago, and pulled out all the stops to make the creatures terrifying. I think I succeeded in that if nothing else. You’ll find Membranes at the top of the…

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  • The Nineties

    Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends… Yeah, Emerson, Lake, and Palmer. Good stuff. Today I’m going to get into what was a magical decade for yours truly, the 1990s. Why? Pull up a chair… Throughout the decades before this, there is a pattern: I want to be a writer, but I…

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  • The Breakdown

    Good morning, and welcome back. I’m here once again to share a story I wrote some years back. This one is about a tiny desert community populated by colorful characters who don’t believe in living in the mainstream. I was at loose ends about what story to post this week, and was considering rolling some…

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