Offering a free read of a short story uncharacteristic of my writing -- cyberpunk! Get it at the dropdown link "Extras" under fiction....

My published collection of short stories was born of a time in my early adulthood in Manhattan where I was single, sometimes lonely,...

When truth has failed, your faith has sundered You lift your gaze, the question wondered The bough has broke The veil was felled, You...

If you Google, "What makes a good hero?" in fiction there are a fair amount of hits that come up with lists of qualities and...

Time, time, time See what's become of me While I looked around For my possibilities I was so hard to please Look around Leaves are...

You keep waiting for me to speak, but my words died a long time ago -- about the time you stopped listening. But I know more than you...

We are drowning in mediocrity, oblivious to our impending end. We are satisfied with the bland, content with the merely okay -- no, worse...

Another installment in the process of getting (the right) words on paper: When I'm working on a book, my first draft tends to be an...

"I've been thinking a lot about this thing we all do -- life…" she began, her pencil absently tracing an invisible line around the open...

A coffee cup, a ring of dried sludge around the bottom, a pair of round, tortoiseshell glasses -- one lens tinted dark where it bakes in...

If you walk with me, you are welcome -- though I cannot guarantee the content of our time. My vision shifts with sun and shadows, rage...

Another installment in the process of getting (the right) words on paper: Every Wednesday I take our teen son on a road trip to spend the...

Another installment in the process of getting (the right) words on paper: I just spent three days knowing a chapter was all wrong from...

Whenever I do a reading, questions invariably arise regarding my approach to writing, where my ideas come from and how I get them from...

"HIDDEN: an impossible story" is a short, YA magical realism novel about a fifteen-year-old boy and his struggle with anxiety. There's a...

This is NOT my work space. It is lovely, zen, uncluttered, and unfettered. The view is -- green, and while not particularly special, it...

So I recently won a short story contest on Words and Brushes. Yay for me! But seriously -- I'm happy, it's nice to be validated, to be...

I've been thinking a lot about writing...the act of writing, the putting of words to paper and making it real, rich, honest. All writers...

W.P. Kinsella died. For those who don't know, he wrote the book, "Shoeless Joe" upon which the movie, "Field of Dreams" was based. He...

When asked about my writing, I usually say I think of it as painting with words. That I strive to craft my prose with an eye toward...