Like free books? (And who doesn’t?) For the next five days everyone can pick up a free ebook version from Amazon of my debut book, a collection of stories entitled “A History Remembered by No One: Stories by Sea and Land!” Each life has tied to it a history– but how much of each person’s…
Category: Literature
“The Tale of the Two Deaths”
written December 4, 1996 I had known the outcome of my incarceration the moment of my capture. Being an officer of higher rank, I was relegated, along with several of my comrades, to the fortification of Los Cuevos. At the the sound of those words I knew my fate my secured. Los Cuevos was…
Bedeviled by “Devil”
written August 6, 2011 What are we to do with something like Devil in the White City? It’s won an award for Best Fact Crime, and labeled as History, but reads with enough dramatic, pulpy push that it could be taken to the beach. It’s this tension between professional and lay you put your…
At What Cost?
written 1999, with a vast demolition and renovation June 13-14, 2016 From where I stand Two feet short and losing ground It’s worth asking now, as I go down What’s the point of a kingdom If it costs a crown? The little old cannon on the knoll That once was manned Will not…
No One Will Believe You 