Ghosts of Philadelphia
On a recent trip to Philadelphia, I found a number of gems. The city has a diverse vibrancy that’s personified by the madness of lunch...
Behind the War
The survival story of "Endgame," and all of the Woman At War series, is set to the backdrop of the Great War between the diverse Trieste...
Running Sands
Other than massive sharks and arachnids of frightening size or disposition, few things scare me as much as the nebulous fear that I won't...
Book Review - Persepolis
For my men's book group, where we try to hit fiction/non-fiction from around the globe, we read Marjane Satrapi's graphic novel...
Markless - Short Fiction
The following story was inspired by a National Geographic pictorial on gutsy climbers in Yosemite National Park. (While I applaud such...
Imagined Sit-down With an Agent
Why start a story with a horrific blast? Why not put it at the end, with lots of dramatic build-up to ka-blammo? This is the most...