Fiction: LINUS ON THE SAVANNAPosted 10/02/2025Letters home from the Peace Corps? Good grief indeed!
Fiction: EMBER SINS - An ExcerptPosted 09/19/2025Start, as they say, at the beginning
Memoir: The Benefit of Being the ‘Friend of the Devil’Posted 08/15/2025An IMDB acting credit? Me? Well…
Nonfiction: The Undead Underwood-MillerPosted 06/06/2025Resurrection and misrepresentation are hard…
Nonfiction: Requiem For a Feline OverlordPosted 05/15/2025Saying goodbye to my best buddy.
From The Trunk: Dictation Notes (2012)Posted 02/18/2025A (probably) previously unpublished bit from 2012, regarding the marriage of walking at lunch and dictating story ideas to maximize time. Three guesses how this works out…
Fiction: "A Christmas Coda"Posted 12/12/24A holiday trifle about a rich man whose heart is opened during a Christmas Eve visit by three spirits… unfortunately.
Nonfiction: For Want of a Form, or How To Set Your Nonprofit Back Three YearsPosted 08/15/2024The Harlan and Susan Ellison Foundation was intended to preserve the writer’s legacy and home; but three years on, it’s facing the loss of its charity status for painfully avoidable reasons…
Ephemera: A Letter From Martin Mangan, August 9, 1945Posted 07/24/2024Sometimes, mundane things provide snapshots of ordinary people standing in the midst of key events in human history.
Publishing: A Boy And His Cat Come HomePosted 07/29/2024A new release gathers five years of CATNEY AND LANEY hijinx from Facebook plus a ton of bonus material in the last obvious stop for a made-up non-TV TV-show: a ‘making of’ book.
Fiction: “Alternate Manscapes”Posted 07/24/2024Beside the Montauk light on a cold winter afternoon, the Iron Vanguard awaits trouble from another dimension. And perhaps has grooming envy.
Memoir: A Face In The CrowdPosted 07/8/2024Fortunate timing, photographic detective work, and how Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford got my father into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. Sort-of.
Story Notes: Babalú MusicPosted 01/06/2023Where does a story come from? Follow along as I talk about the points of creation that led to the Great American Fiction contest prize-winner “Daddy, Play That Babalú”.