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

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

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, ...

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

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 aboun...

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

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 i...

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 b...

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 wil...

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...

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...

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 i...

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

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 unexpec...

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 incre...

"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 n...