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Book Review of “The Case for Cancel Culture” by Ernest Owens

I don’t normally review books such as Ernest Owens’ The Case for Cancel Culture: How this Democratic Tool Works to Liberate Us All on this blog, but having inadvertently encountered one of the author’s tweets on twitter, I was intrigued. Note that general replies are disabled on that tweet, and this from an author who […]

Secret Sequel to “Shoot the Devil” Coming Soon

You may recall that I have a short story in the anthology Shoot the Devil called “Wolf in the Wind”, which by the way, seems to be doing pretty well. It’s got 91% four and five star ratings on Amazon. There is a sequel coming out soon which I can’t really talk about yet, but […]

Frank and the Plot of the Hypnotizing Slime, Chapter 8

If you like my work, buy me a virtual cup of coffee at Ko-Fi. In the evil headquarters, Kayden was pacing back and forth near the entrance while Hazel was looking through Leah’s telescope. “I still can’t see anything. Oh wait.” Hazel focused the lens. “I think I can see them at the edge of […]

Strings

14-year-old Stace McPherson was drawn to the musician’s unusual stringed instrument. The backyard wedding reception was over. He was supposed to be helping clean but he wanted to touch it. The musician, no one called him anything else, had played the most amazing tunes, like from another world. He looked around. Just the last few […]

Review of Quantum Leap Ep 17 “The Friendly Skies”

Finally got the bandwith to watch Quantum Leap S1.E17 The Friendly Skies where once again Ben leaps into a woman with absolutely no reaction to being in a female body. I happened to mention on twitter the other day that just in season one, Ben has leapt into more women than Sam (Scott Bakula) did […]

Frank and the Plot of the Hypnotizing Slime, Chapter 7

If you like my work, buy me a virtual cup of coffee at Ko-Fi. The next morning, the hypnotizing slime was ready and Frank ordered it loaded into the slime cannon. He had made more of it than the previous day and concentrated the formula so it wouldn’t come off easily and would have more […]

Hell’s Harlequin

“There must be some kind of way out of here, said the joker to the thief.” Jester pretended to play a game on her cell’s frayed bedsheets with a worn deck of cards. The old Dylan tune running through her head seemed too cliché, even for her. She didn’t know how to play solitaire, but […]

Review of Quantum Leap Ep 16 “Ben, Interrupted”

Every single time the Quantum Leap people say “this is the episode that’s the best” and so forth, why, oh why do I find that they aren’t quite right? The Quantum Leap season 1, episode 16 show Ben, Interrupted aired on Monday, March 20th. Of course, the title is no mystery, it recalls Girl, Interrupted […]

Doorways Fluttering in the Breeze

They reminded him of his childhood when Mom used to hang the wet laundry on the backyard clothes line to dry. Except these were supposed to be art at a small, outdoor fair at a local park. In his peculiar line of work, Demetrius Lauer traveled all over the world and visited communities from the […]

Book Review of “The Cinder Spires: The Aeronaut’s Windlass”

If you like my work, buy me a virtual cup of coffee at Ko-Fi. I was at the public library weeks ago looking for another book when I came across Jim Butcher’s novel The Cinder Spires: The Aeronaut’s Windlass. It was published in 2016 as the first of a series, but according to Butcher’s website, […]