Oct
10
Will Caligari found that he was waking up every morning when the heater kicked on to pee. The sound of the heat coming on is barely noticeable, there must be some subconscious connection between this noise and his bladder springing to attention. Will did not like this. Not one bit. What it meant, to him […]
Oct
10
Looking for a release sometime between Thanksgiving and Xmas. Tentatively entitled Dizzying Depths, it will be my 10th short story collection. The process of selecting which stories made it in and which were cruelly excluded is almost complete… and let me tell you, I couldn’t be more disappointed. Just kidding. Technically I could be more […]
Oct
9
(originally posted 1/7/2013) I’ve always wondered, given the fascination we have with losers and people actively engaged in the throes of losing, why there aren’t more autobiographies written by those amongst us that have failed? You only have to turn on the TV at almost any time or any channel and the program will […]
Oct
8
(originally posted 4/27/2015) It was March 1957 when the story began. John, who’d always had a strong interest in anthropodology, had struck up a conversation with Paul in the zoology section of the Natural History Museum in London… and the rest was history. Four lads who shook the entomological world. It wasn’t long afterwards […]
Oct
7
(originally posted 5/19/2012) (The scene: August of 2004 in a boardroom somewhere in Cincinnati) Fred Wilson shifted uncomfortably in his chair. That innocent-looking vine he had so cavalierly pulled out of his zucchini patch recently had indeed turned out to be the poison ivy his wife had warned him about seeing lurking in his […]
