David Bowie: Ashes to Ashes (Revisited)
Sean MurphySordid details following. It’s all in here: summing up practically everything from the ‘70s and...
David Bowie: The Man Who Owned the World (Three Years Later)
ONLY THE BEATLES. That’s the sole comparison that comes to mind when compelled to name...
My Annual New Year’s Eve Message
As always, it’s a hell of a lot easier to keep things in perspective by...
Mom, Johnny Mathis and Me
Despite accusations to the contrary leveled by friends (and especially family), I don’t hate Christmas...
What We Talk About When We Talk About Sex (In Fiction)
WRITING ABOUT SEX is like engaging in sex: it’s hard. Or, it should be. It’s...
Never Say Die: Celebrating Ozzy at 70
Happy 70th birthday to Ozzy Osbourne, the self-proclaimed Prince of Darkness. If you’d guessed,...
Original Short Fiction: The Letter My Father Never Wrote Me
I’m grateful to the excellent literary magazine Palooka for giving a home to my very...
The Whiteness of the Whale: Remembering The White Album (Revisited)
Therefore, in his other moods, symbolize whatever grand or gracious thing he will by whiteness,...
Poem: To the ones that got away
Gratitude to Gyroscope for publishing this one (2017). To the ones that got away...
Something More Than a Superhero: Appreciating Stan Lee
Anyone who has written with some modest degree of success eventually, inevitably, is asked how...