Monthly Archives: April 2012

The day is more than half spent, after napping unwittingly in a chair in my suite all afternoon. One doesn’t do that sort of thing without needing the rest in their senior years. I’m headed into evening now, and was … Continue reading →

All the time I spent hating myself in my youth was useless. I must admit I wasted many years of my life in senseless self-loathing. It took a lot of a very personal series of interactions with my Higher Power … Continue reading →

You’d always had a chemical imbalance, Maureen, ever since you flipped out in law school, that’s the way I remember it. You knew you’d never pass the bar, and you couldn’t find any other way to go on in life, … Continue reading →

There came a day when I realized I might not survive to see another day. The peril was tangible, real, plausible. I sat in those hot woods, thirty-two years old and drunk on my backside, in the company of strangers, … Continue reading →

This story has been expounded upon up to and past 6,000 words, and is awaiting publication release on KDP on Amazon.  Since the beginning of this piece was garbled in the first place, I thought I’d offer my readers the … Continue reading →

I’m thinking of how to tell you more about my chronic illness, without having to sound like a tin horn. My own personal version of schizophrenia is well under medicinal control at the moment. I’m feeling quite comfortable in this … Continue reading →

All these are my titles for sale that have cover graphics for them on KDP at Amazon.  They are not all short stories, either.  Some are full length books.  Those are usually collections of short stories, but the scope does … Continue reading →

The depth of the night was lengthening, while the silence of the night lengthened as well, punctuated occasionally by the heater blowing now and then, and the keyboard clicking in response to the author working. There was a certain nothingness … Continue reading →