CIRCUIT BREAKERS AND THE CHATEAU MARMONT
bySometimes writers worry that we’re losing our creative mojo, abandoned by our best friend: the power of imagination. It all starts with dreams…or doesn’t….
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STORY TIME, AND THE GHOST OF JOHANN BRILL
byWhen I was small I used to go for walks with my father. My favorite destination was the old J.G. Brill Company factory adjacent…
FRIENDLY GHOSTS, AND THE EDGE OF FOREVER
byWhile looking through some old boxes in a storage locker recently I found a short story I wrote when I was nineteen: “Friendly Ghosts,…
SATAN’S LAGOON
by“Satan’s Lagoon” was the prologue that opened earlier versions of WILDWOOD. The novel ultimately took another direction, but a detour back to The Lagoon…
RANCID
byThe published version of THE BLUE ROUTE opens with an attempted hit and run in Los Angeles. Earlier drafts of the novel, however, began…
THE LONELY COOL BEFORE DAWN
by‘The lonely cool before dawn’ is of course a great, evocative line from one of the best songs ever written: Springsteen’s “Thunder Road”. It’s…
NORMAN ROCKWELL 2013
byIt was late on a glittering Sunday afternoon in early summer, and I was riding my bike around the town that I live in….
NIGHT TRAIN EXPRESS
byThe unmarked Air America cargo plane descended from cloud cover like an ungainly bird of prey, a seventy-five foot long silver Frisbee skimming the…
A LONG WAY FROM WALTON’S MOUNTAIN
byWhen I was a kid one of my favorite TV shows was, peculiarly, The Waltons, the syrupy saga of a large, loving family struggling…
MILE 59
byI don’t cry very often, for better or worse. I never did, really, not even as a child. Maybe I didn’t see the point,…