A New Poem: Bigpop

“Big Pop”
A plastic bowl of grapes.
The dusty, almost-black globes
polished by our fingertips.
The tart snap of the skin between my teeth.
He teaches me to spit out the seeds,
the stones bitter on the tip of my tongue.
Wrestling old Smoky to the ground,
he bites the dog’s ears, both of them growling.
I watch, I laugh,
wondering if he will get [...]

In The Ghetto

(Note: This past week marked the birthdays of Ray Bradbury and H.P. Lovecraft. I’m willing to go out on a limb and say that they are perhaps two of the most influential American writers of the 20th Century. Perhaps that’s overstating it but, at the very least, readers and writers owe a great deal to [...]

On Hugos, Inexplicable Beavers, and Other Conditions

Yesterday was my son’s fourteenth birthday.
Ephemeros…

In case you haven’t heard, the Hugo Awards were announced this past weekend. You can see the nominees and winners here. I have to say, while I haven’t read many of this year’s nominees, I think that the award for film should have gone to the first season of “Heroes” [...]

Just About A Day

Back in September of last year, I started podcasting my novel “Assam & Darjeeling” on a chapter-by-chapter basis. Overall, I stuck fairly close to a weekly-ish schedule for new episodes, not realizing that it was going to be almost a year before I was finished with the project.
Almost a year.
The manuscript is 147,500 words long. [...]

Having the Last Word(le)

Created using Wordle and the full text of “Assam & Darjeeling” to commemorate the soon-to-be-concluded podcast.