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February 14, 2023
Frank and the Plot of the Hypnotizing Slime, Chapter 1
If you like my work, buy me a virtual cup of coffee at Ko-Fi. This is a story my seven-year-old granddaughter and I started last Halloween. Like most children her age, her interests move from one topic to the next, and it was ignored for a long time. When she showed an interest in it […]
My Novelette “The Fallen Shall Rise” is FREE Starting February 14th
If you like my work, buy me a virtual cup of coffee at Ko-Fi. My SciFi space opera novelette The Fallen Shall Rise is available as a FREE download from Amazon onto your kindle from today, February 14th (a perfect Valentine’s Day gift for your science fiction friend or companion) through the end of the […]
February 11, 2023
Fantastic Schools, Volume Six Available on Amazon
If you like my work, buy me a virtual cup of coffee at Ko-Fi. After a successful run as part of a story bundle and as I previously mentioned, L. Jagi Lamplighter’s “Fantastic Schools. Volume Six” is now available on Amazon in kindle format. The anthology features my “magic middle school” story “The Price”. For […]
February 8, 2023
Review of Quantum Leap Ep 12 “Let Them Play”
To be honest, I was dreading watching and reviewing the most recent Quantum Leap episode Let Them Play. In fact I avoided watching the episode for at least a day so I wouldn’t have to see it. I’m not one to take things at face value just because someone tells me something, so I didn’t […]
Feelin’ Groovy
Used to be called the 59th Street Bridge but that was long ago. Now they call it the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge, whoever he was. At least one thing didn’t change. Like in the old days, someone painted a heart on this bench. It’s nice to see. I’ve been walking up and down the Eternity […]
February 3, 2023
Fantastic Schools: Volume Two Reviewed by Upstream Reviews
Back in 2020, my fantasy short story Sorcery’s Preschool was published (kindle version) in Fantastic Schools Volume Two edited by L. Jagi Lamplighter. A few months later, the paperback edition came out. In brief, my short story involved probably the only magical pre-school in fiction (I can’t confirm that, but it does seem unlikely anyone […]
February 1, 2023
The Others
If you like my work, buy me a virtual cup of coffee at Ko-Fi. Downtown passersby were aghast as they watched a man wave goodbye to the woman with one leg dangling out of the second-floor window. “Do something! She’ll fall.” Instead of responding to an emergency, the man in the baseball cap smiled. “No, […]
January 31, 2023
Review of Quantum Leap Ep 11 “Leap. Die. Repeat.”
When Ben leaps into one of five people in an elevator at a 1962 nuclear reactor, he must figure which one triggers a bomb that kills them all. Each time the bomb goes off, he leaps into another one of them and the scene resets on a fine loop. If the loop runs out, Ben […]
January 25, 2023
When My Daddy Found Me
She dreamed of this all her life and now, she’d found it. A burned out brick building next to a concrete bridge. Emily had searched photographic archives from all over the world before discovering the object of her nightmares in rural Ohio. She had to push the overgrown foliage aside just to get a look […]
January 22, 2023
My Short Story “Fall of the Tower” Now Available in “One-Way Ticket”
I’m happy to announce that the Starry Eyed Press science fiction anthology One-Way Ticket is now available in both Kindle and Paperback form at Amazon. It contains my SciFi short story “Fall of the Tower.” Here’s a brief summary of the anthology: Space, with its infinite possibilities, calls us to explore, but makes no promises […]
