Innocents and Accidents, Hints and Allegations

Velvet Verbosity's 100 Word Challenge lifts the light of freedom to oppressed peoples everywhere, 100 words at a time. This week's ...

This week's 52/250 Flash is on the theme "Border Town", and my addition is here , called "Close To The Borderline".

Banquet Speech by Ernest Hemingway (excerpt) - Media Player at Nobelprize.org "Things may not be immediately discernible in what a ma...

1. Vanessa  Woods'  book "Bonobo Handshake". I heard about her on PRI's "To The Best Of Our Knowledge", and I we...

I hate you because I've been trying to put something into words for all of my adult life, and you managed to do it in two sentences.  ...

Velvet Verbosity's 100 Word Challenge was almost entirely not responsible for the Jets' victory over the Patriots last week. The wo...

The 52/250 Flash has come into the world again. This week's stories are about "animal behavior", and my story, "Meeting T...

The inimitable Velvet Verbosity, who is as close to invincible as mortal beings can hope to be, has issued another 100 Word Challenge to wo...

This week's flash is called "Loose Connections", and my entry, "Playground Mom", is  here

I could watch this commercial all day.

My book, called "Everybody Loves You Now", a novel set in the early 1990s of a guitar playing grad student who falls in love with ...

By now, everyone has heard about the horrible, tragic events in Arizona involving multiple shootings involving a Congresswoman, a Federal ju...

“Give up on yourself. Begin taking action now, while being neurotic or imperfect, or a procrastinator, or unhealthy, or lazy, or any other l...

But his attitude about flash fiction was unknown. The 52/250 clock has rolled over again, and my story for this week's theme, "Fl...

Velvet Verbosity is the progenitor of the 100 Word Challenge- accept no imitations! This week's word is "Stabbed", and my cont...