Innocents and Accidents, Hints and Allegations

I just finished reading Nicholson Baker's "Human Smoke", a nonfiction collection of reportage from the beginning of World War ...

The 52/250 blog has another story by me this week. The theme is "Coincidence", and my story can be found here.

Five Seconds Of Every #1 Pop Single Part 2 by mjs538 This absolutely freaking fascinated me. It is, as it says, 5 seconds of every number...

Velvet Verbosity's 100 Word Challenge has not been traded to the New York Knicks in the Carmelo Anthony deal, contrary to previous repor...

The fine folks at IndieInk.Org ( indieink.org ) have started issuing Writing Challenges, in which a member of the IndieInk community chal...

Non. C'est vraiment possible. The fine folks at the 52/250 Flash have turned down another story of mine for entry into the marvelous...

I've become enamored with online videos again, specifically the TED talks, available for free at TED.com. Here is the latest one to catc...

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