My fingertips grazed the keyboard without effect. Stuck at my short story’s critical point, I needed to escape the laptop shaming my writer’s block. Near my desk, a raft of new drawing supplies sat in a fresh arrangement of cans … Continue reading Cartoons, Sketches, Drawings – 2
Gerty and LaShana Gerty, social-distancing Gerty stops to smell the roses Gerty and the Goldfinch The Perfect Escape Continue reading Some of my “Gerty” cartoons
In the last installment, Ella meets Detective Ferguson in his precinct office. The interview includes all her odd experiences in the neighborhood and disturbing incidents in the unit next door to her apartment. After calming herself at a pizza place, … Continue reading Only Regrets – Installment 16: Runners and Losers
This season, full of turmoil and menace, as well as hope, reckoning, and the promise of regeneration, is also the fifth and third anniversary of my two novels, Malevir: Dragons Return and Where Dragons Follow (its stand-alone sequel). This post reviews the … Continue reading A Manual of Magic
In the last installment, Ella meets Detective Ferguson in his precinct office. The interview includes all her odd experiences in the neighborhood and disturbing incidents in the unit next door to her apartment. After calming herself at a pizza place, … Continue reading Only Regrets – Installment 15 (The Runners’ Pack)
With a glass of red wine in hand, I paced the two rooms of my apartment and puzzled over her remarks. Brave and together? Me? Continue reading If You Aren’t in Over Your Head, How do You know How Tall You Are? Attributed to T.S. Eliot, source unknown
Ella meets with a local police detective who has asked her for information regarding her presence near a corpse found in a trash burner in her neighborhood. Ella describes her worries about strange sounds in the unit next to hers … Continue reading Only Regrets – Installment 14 (Officer Friendly?)
Ella was snooping through the vacant unit next to her apartment when an attack knocked her out. After recovering, she found her apartment burglarized but only a photo of her deceased husband was missing. My forehead was throbbing the next … Continue reading Only Regrets – Installment 13 (The Station House)
Re-cap: Ella has moved into a new neighborhood and loves it until she learns someone might have been murdered a few blocks away from her home. A dog threatens her at the murder site. She calls Animal Control to report … Continue reading Only Regrets – Installment 12 (Knock-Out)
Writing in a time of severe social, economic, and psychological dislocation (the COVID-19 pandemic), I relished “The Wee Free Men,” the initial book of four, whose plucky main character, Tiffany Aching, experiences a more surreal existence than she ever imagined. … Continue reading Terry Pratchett’s Coup de Coeur
