Great book ideas that I’ll never actually write

snakes on a higher plane

If you believe that truth is stranger than fiction then I’m afraid you’re going to be very disappointed in the following. Just putting that out there. I awoke this morning to the grim realization that I had dreamt of snakes for the third night in a row. While no expert in dream analysis I’m pretty […]

I haven’t cried like that since Titanic

I always hesitate to quote a number that changes as time passes because I sincerely feel that my writings will still be read a hundred years from now and I hate to date myself. On the other hand, it might allow future readers to sigh and think about how different things were when I was […]

lunatic

She got the dog a few days before he moved in. One of a series of curious decisions she made around that time. His moving in being one of them. He immediately hated the dog, finding it a distraction every time he sat down to write. He was a writer. So was she… in theory. […]

the game

It’s been a long time since I’ve run. Not jog. I try to jog every now and then at the park. I had a friend once tell me the healthiest way for a body to jog is barefoot through the grass. I tried it. I looked like the Bruce Willis character in Die Hard when […]

year of the cat (roll tide)

Peter Yoon began to suspect during the campus tour. From the time he was little all his dad talked about were his years at the University of Alabama. Every Saturday they would watch the Crimson Tide squash whatever hapless opponent their football team were facing and his dad would stomp and yell and rejoice with […]