A Swedish movie with subtitles was on a few minutes ago. I didn't watch it, but it was on. I was going through emails and getting rid of spam on my website. All I know about the movie was that it had something to do with love, probably the forbidden variety, and, when the closing …
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Fiction and Taxes
What's the Anne Murray song? Hey-a-ay-ay-hay-ay-ay, what about me? I've got some feelings on my mind, I-I-I do ..." Something like that. I would have referred to it as an old Anne Murray song, but there aren't any new ones of which I know. I've got a lot going on. There's this ridiculous tax dispute …
What to My Wandering Eyes Did Appear?
I overslept this morning. It was because I'm always hyper after writing, and I wrote about high school basketball last night. It provides a little spending money. It gets me out the house, where I hole up, writing, reading, watching TV, and playing guitar, along with non-creative activities such as washing dishes and clothes, and …
The Vitality of Extrasensory Youth
Lexi Sobado -- AKA "Alex," AKA "Lynx" -- is a remarkable young woman. She is immensely educated -- none of it formal -- and has extrasensory perceptions that warn her of danger. She has a newlywed husband deployed in the Middle East, extra-official relationship with an extra-government entity, and a serial killer after her. She …
I’ve a Rambling Mind
The NFL has a commercial in which a couple of Arizona Cardinals male fans take part of the picket fence around one of them's home to the game so they can hoist up one of those "D-Fence" signs. The wife calls them at the game to complain. The home is in a neighborhood unlike any …
A Triumph of Youthful Self-Reliance
James Morris's fine thriller, What Lies Within, conjures up suspicions that gnaw away at the reader's psyche, which is exactly what a thriller is supposed to do. Shelley Marano is an intelligent young woman from a working-class family, a high school senior getting ready for college. As tends to be the case in a thriller, …
Isn’t Fun the Greatest Thing You Can Have?
My greatest ally is my guitar. Or, my guitars. I keep one leaning against the couch to my left while I type away here. I just got finished playing a few songs to get me ready to write this blog. I played a couple of mine, "Stuck in a Rut" and "Uh, Huh." Then I …
The Future Is Harsh and Scary, but the Kids Give Us Hope
For the first half of Jake Lingwall's action-packed, young-adult novel, Kari Tahe spends a considerable amount of her waking hours in virtual simulation, testing her drones in a wide range of combat scenarios. This is the future, when the lines between games and reality are blurred. As the story advances -- forgive the vulgarity to …
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My Fiction and Welcome to It
Let’s see. What’s the most boring, clichéd way I can begin a blog? Oh, I got it. Good news and bad news. First, the bad. Sales of Crazy of Natural Causes have been sagging recently. Rather than ranging from 15,000 to 50,000 in the ever-changing rankings, the range has shifted to 50,000 to 200,000 over …
Brontes We Can Understand
What Amy Wolf has achieved, in her novel The Misses Bronte's Establishment, is to make, in the guise of fiction, a distinguished family of writers human. What the Brontes meant to me, before I read Amy's work, was Charlotte (Jane Eyre) and Emily (Wuthering Heights). They were remnants of an education grown ancient. I try …
Nightrider's Lament 