Saturday, October 20, 2018

The opening passage, a teaser from my latest novel entitled : THE TRANSIT OF TRISTAN

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I Wednesday August 17 th , 1994 Telephoto lenses nestled in the soft embrace of the duvet on the twin bed next to her, their str...
Monday, October 24, 2016

Four Years Ago: Chapter One: The Great Circus of China

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Preview. This is the first chapter—after the prologue—of my novel Sandstone . Sunday October, 21, 2012. 1 The Great Circus...
Friday, September 11, 2015

A Limbering Exercise in Flashfiction

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You Know “Well, you know that famous saying . . . .” The young man on the bench, seemingly more interested in pedestrians on ...
Saturday, November 15, 2014

Yes Cecil Update

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I'm presently working on the opening and final chapters of this novel in progress. I will then edit the manuscript thoroughly. By year e...
Monday, October 13, 2014

Yes Cecil, A Long Story Short, Part Eighty-Four

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Aqueous floaters plied the liquid of his eyes like pieces of driftwood, their shapes reminding him of punctuation marks: comas, inverted qu...
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Wednesday, October 01, 2014

Yes Cecil, A Long Story Short, Part Eighty-Three

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Duncan raised the cool water in his cupped hands and gently pressed it against his face, rested his palms over each eye, and breathed deepl...
Tuesday, September 09, 2014

Yes Cecil, A Long Story Short, Part Eighty-Two

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While Mrs. Shimoda sat up in bed concentrating on Tsushima Yûko's Oma Monogatori , a book of ghost stories she'd found in the multi...
Friday, August 29, 2014

Yes Cecil, A Long Story Short, Part Eighty One

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To have stood before her Mother's door like an eavesdropper, to have quietly passed the others with their Christmas decorations—sle...