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

Superheroes are big. In TV and movies. Cool. I love superheroes. Recently, women superheroes have been featured -- Wonder Woman and Captain Marvel with thei...

I am not religious, and I only visited once when I was eighteen, and certainly didn’t appreciate it the way I would today. Nevertheless, as I stood with the w...

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

There have been words milling around my insides for a while now, but they couldn't find a place to land. Politics and social issues abound and I have many de...

When truth has failed, your faith has sundered You lift your gaze, the question wondered The bough has broke The veil was felled, You wish them all A fare-th...

My father disliked how our society views children -- as though they are less-than simply because they are new to the world. In his work in the theater you wo...

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 brown And the sky I...

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 will ever forget, which...

of lavender bloom awash in mist remembered and fading away

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

desiccated brown against ashen gray lining i am inside out

I guess in my heart -- in that place that nags you not to eat the last cookie, or buy that too-expensive dress, or get tied up with a guy with a smile like s...

We've all heard the phrase: the clothes make the man. Wear a power suit, and people will treat you accordingly. Wear rags, and the same is true. But there's ...

I have difficulty with this notion that there is an appropriate time to protest injustice and conversely, an inappropriate time. How is it ever inappropriate...

A friend posted a photo on Facebook the other day of one of those cool city fresco paintings; you know the ones -- they are those unexpected art bombs on the...

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 incredibly detailed, narr...

"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 notebook page in her ...