Innocents and Accidents, Hints and Allegations

The always marvelous Joe  Posnanski  , who writes about sports and wrote one of the best books I've ever read about Negro League star an...

This week, for Velvet Verbosity's 100 Word  Challenge , I'm going a little different route. The word is "Obsession", and I...

This week's 52/250 Flash theme is "The Money's Gone". My story is called "When The Music's Over", and it can...

No, there's no mistake. And stop calling me Shirley. The fine folks at 52/250 ( 52250flash.wordpress.com ) graciously declined a story...

The fine folks at You, Me, and Religion have published an interview with, well,  me.  Hard to imagine why, but it's there for your amuse...

Velvet Verbosity's 100 Word Challenge, if applied liberally to stubborn driveway ice, will melt it in seconds.* This week's word is...

This week's theme is "password", and my 250 word story resides  here

Guy  Kawasaki  and Martin  Lieberman , among others, have started a thing. This is called "Last Blog", and you are supposed to wri...

Suicide, or as the Bard called it, "self slaughter", seems to be a theme in my readings these days. There's  Lori , who wri...

This week's 52/250 Flash theme is "long distance", and my contribution is  here .

Velvet Verbosity's 100 Word Challenge, if properly appreciated, could probably end the turmoil in Egypt. This week's word is "...

Oh my God, you have to watch this!

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...