“A man’s subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in some dark den of its own, hidden away, and emerges only to taunt and deride and increase the misery of a miserable hour.”
P. G. Wodehouse
Jan
8
Many thanks to Skylar Griego at the DailyLobo.com for a wonderfully written review of my latest book The Song Between Her Legs. I don’t want to give away too much but here’s how it starts: “From the very first page, on which Manion quotes himself, this is one of the worst things a person can […]
Jan
27
As nice as it is to be able to go online and buy books with a few clicks of a mouse nothing beats spending time at a book store. Just the smell of the place. Walking up and down the aisles, stumbling upon a tome you are unfamiliar with and whisking it up to the […]
Jan
26
I have a pet. Had a pet I should say. Give me a moment… it’s been a tough couple of days. His name was GP. The initials stood for Guinea Pig. Which worked out great until a friend of mine told me he was a hamster. Whatever. I loved GP a lot. A couple weeks […]
Jan
25
I heard about his suicide the way you hear everything in an apartment building. A mean little whisper that is never directed at you but you hear it none the less. Those who have never lived in an apartment building in a big city often romanticize it, picturing it in their head as some little […]
Jan
24
I just want to start by saying right off the bat that when I talk about sports I’m not talking about individual activities that we all enjoy participating in every now and again, I’m talking about Sports with a capitol “S.” Sports as in stadiums full of people cheering on groups of men who are […]
Jan
23
I can’t say exactly how long it will take you to read this first sentence but what I can know for certain is that however long it takes you will be that much closer to death. That was exactly the kind of thought that was dogging Neil Nathan Pre (pronounced /prā/). His mortality shadowed him […]
