First Two Chapters of Pinholes as a FREE audio!

Pinholes book cover As a New Year's gift to you all (which has absolutely nothing to do with book promotion), I'm making the first two chapters of my latest book, Pinholes: Traveling Through the Curtain of the Night, available as a free audio! Here is the link for its Internet Archive page below. Enjoy! FREE …

POEM: “My Wildest Dreams for Them”

"My Wildest Dreams for Them"   that live in the future are pretty predictable. I'd like to say what a humanitarian might: that my descendants live in a world of peace free from disease and distress. But what I really want, I mean the very first thing that popped into my brain, was that my …

POEM: “An Apology to My Reader”

"An Apology to My Reader" Let me first say an apology is not warranted although I am sorry you didn't like my work, I am sorry my words offend or cause you pain, open wide that hole in your heart --yet isn't that a part of art's ultimate calling? --to make us feel something, not …

POEM: “Trump’s Greenland”

"Trump's Greenland"   Trump's Greenland wouldn't be dwarfed by a golden Trump tower's glittering phallus not compensating for anything at all.   Trump's Greenland would be a dream capitalist utopia except that everyone would know he's the best, they all would love him, all!   if only Greenland was Denmark's to sell, he could trade …

Short Story: Family Holidays

  The holidays: that time of year when family and friends you avoid are suddenly thrust into your life again, when you give gifts because of obligation rather than inclination. That time of year when those unlucky souls are forced to say "I didn't get you anything"...or worse, be told, "It's the thought that counts." …

Friday Flash: Con Games

Buttercup, could you help me with this, please? Really, Wesley! What am I, your mother? What? Can’t you get it yourself? Well, yes, but I'd rather you helped me. Why do you need me to do things you are perfectly capable of doing yourself? Huh? Buttercup, don't be ridiculous. It's hardly ridiculous. So far this …

Friday Flash Revisited: As You Liked It –or– As You Like It, Part 2

The following story also appears in my short story collection, An Optimist’s Journal of the End of Days and Other Stories, published via Venetian Spider Press. “Father, the seating arrangement simply must be changed.” “Why, Rosalind! Whatever do you mean? The couples are all seated next to each other, as befits an Anniversary dinner--” “But …

Short Story: Cliffhanger

The following story also appears in my short story collection, An Optimist’s Journal of the End of Days and Other Stories, published via Venetian Spider Press. *warning: some profanity (three F-bombs) George Griffith, affable and lovable nice guy, stood at the cliff's edge, hands raised  high in the air. He was accompanied by his loving …

POEM: Beware the Hipster

  "Beware the Hipster"   (inspired by Jabberwocky) . 'Tis sunny on the day I see the Hipster--bowler hat on head, round Lennon glasses jauntily perched on his nose. I nearly fled. . "Beware the Hipster!" I'd been warned, "-the lips that sneer, the fierce eyes that view everything, yet also scorn whatever thing they're …

Friday Flash (Revisited): Space-time to Travel

When Hector invented his time machine, he did not concern himself with aesthetics. He had never valued beauty over functionality, and he assumed the judges of the 54th-century’s multiversal scientific competition would share his opinion. His chest swelled as he viewed his entry in the ‘Time-Machine of the Century’ contest, humanity’s valiant effort to embrace …