Flights of Fancy

  • Changing Times

    I hate the change to and from Daylight Savings Time. Twice a year my body spends a week jet-lagged without moving more than a hundred feet from my current latitude. I understand the need for it by those not blessed to live in paradise with me, but that doesn’t make it better. At least I’m…

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  • The Diner of Dread

    This feature may become the garden spot of the site, although I would hope my blog would give it a run for its money. But here will appear a collection of my short stories which are largely tales of terror, disaster, and sometimes pure existential dread. The sharp-eyed among you will notice the Roman “One”…

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  • How do These Things Get Started?

    It was September of 1957, and I was about to enter the fifth grade at Sunset View Elementary School in San Diego. A month into it, I would turn ten, a milestone age being the first one with two digits. But, seriously, a month before my birthday, I had to start the school year, and…

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  • My Favorite Stories

    I’m going to begin the blog by sharing one of my stories, one that I’m very fond of because of the style that it’s written in. It’s a person remembering a story from his younger days, and telling it like he would if you were sitting with him in a restaurant. The man is a…

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