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!

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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 ...

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 the sun, the other c...

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 and fondness, sleep an...

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 day with a group of...

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

Whenever I do a reading, questions invariably arise regarding my approach to writing, where my ideas come from and how I get them from head to paper. None o...

"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 revamped cover on th...

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

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 told something you've ...

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 also wrote, "The Iowa B...

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 imagery that is akin to a...