

Snippet from "Destruction"
This rough-draft piece is from my forthcoming "Destruction," sequel to "Endgame." It takes place during a (failed) mission where heroine...


Short Fiction: "Fur" (or "The Trouble With Pets")
The afternoon is a slice of perfection. For late September at this latitude, sun and 63 degrees was the most they could ask for. Jarvis...


What Castles Teach Us
If a novel can be equated to a large physical structure (both have many levels of development) then novel-writing differs in that it...


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...


Poem – Start of the Day
While I don't consider myself a poet (I haven't entered a poetry contest since high school) I think of mine as being similar to...