A selection from Moon Garden which first appeared on Spillwords. Aunt Phyllis’s moon garden is one of my fondest and earliest childhood memories. During one of our annual week-long stays at her house in Kentucky, I waited until everyone was asleep and slipped out the open window of my cousin Michael’s old first floor bedroom with what I imagined at the time was the greatest … Continue reading Childish Things
I love old photographs. I look at the faces of the people in them, and their surroundings, and I wonder what life must’ve been like for them. What kinds of hardships did they endure? What secrets did they hide? What brought them joy? What made them afraid? A while back I rescued a box of them from being tossed. They belonged to my now-deceased grandmother … Continue reading Forgotten lives
Moon Garden is a collection of fanciful and speculative stories that live somewhere between science fiction and fantasy. Grave Concerns explores the darker side of life and the human psyche. Download them both to your Kindle Library for free January 25th! Continue reading “Moon Garden” and “Grave Concerns” both free today
Guns N’ Roses Not In This Lifetime Tour, October 23, 2019 Photo Credits for pro-shot pics goes to Katarina Benzova Hearing Welcome to the Jungle as a fifth grader in 1987 is one of the most important moments in my life. I knew right away that this was different than Bon Jovi and Def Leppard. It was different than all the shit I’d seen on … Continue reading GNR 10-23-19 OKC non-review
I’ve just released a collection of some of my more fanciful/fantasy/scifi-lite short stories, all of which have previously appeared on this blog and elsewhere. I call it Moon Garden. Included are the following: The Scoop Childish Things Delicacies Death Mines of Mars Father Knows… Other Further Adventures And several more. Those of you who have already read these stories, stay tuned for a free day, … Continue reading Moon Garden: out now
Back in the (very) early 2000’s, I read an interview with Kid Rock in Spin Magazine. He was talking about the success of his 1998 breakout album “Devil Without a Cause,” and how he’d approached writing the lyrics to that album with the mindset that he was already a multi-platinum megastar, even though he’d only enjoyed moderate regional/underground success up to that point. Throughout the … Continue reading Somebody’s gotta feel this
Eccentric tech mogul and cult leader Richard Kryuss has developed a system of storing and transmitting data organically, connected by trees containing within their DNA the entirety of recorded human knowledge. Could his Terrestrially Regenerative Enhanced Extranet, or T.R.E.E., be a boon to mankind, or will it spell doom for the human race? Spanning over 200,000 years of post-Earth human history, Effugium repeatedly defies the … Continue reading EFFUGIUM now available for purchase
Effugium, which is Latin for “escape,” was the name of a space vessel constructed in the early years of the twenty-first century by eccentric tech mogul and cult leader Richard “The Prophet” Kryuss, founder of Krytech Industries. After a mysterious force announced its intent to remove all human life from Earth within ten years’ time, Kryuss funded the Effugium project with his own money, for … Continue reading My escape, your escape
