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The Escape From New York

Originally Here on Substack.My family and I made it out of New York City and into Texas. Free at last, free at last. Thank God Almighty, we are free at last.We started planning in August of 2022. We had a house and a buyer in November, 2022We moved into the house in Texas in April, 2023.You may be wondering: What the Hell took so long? Hell, I expected to be in Texas in

Stories of my father

 The original post was over here.I love my father … He’s been dead a week now…When they filmed It's Complicated at St. John's University, where my father taught philosophy, they parked the Kraft tent in the parking lot he came in. While he parked elsewhere, he still had to cut through the tent in order to get through his usual door.While my father cut through the Kraft tent, he

The Father's Day That Came Early

The original blog was posted on Substack, over here. The original link. I figure I should let everyone here know as well.In 1984, my father moved into the house I grew up in. When all the packing was done, he said he would be buried from his house. He was never going to move again. Period.He got his wish.On February 25, 2023, a Saturday night, he overdosed on his insulin… Again.For the last

Eulogy for my father

Originally published here. I wrote it out on Substack so I could work on it from multiple workstations… then decided to just hit the publish button. I'm publishing it here as a was to update everyone of everything I put out on substack over the years.As some of you may know, I write novels under the name Declan Finn—something my father encouraged, with an alias he provided. For one

NEW RELEASE: THE FIRE FOR EFFECT ANTHOLOGY

 As the title says, I’m in a new Anthology.The Fire for Effect anthology is all focused on military science fiction. Let the explosions begin!Humans have spread to the stars, taking their warlike nature with them. This anthology contains eighteen incredible tales. Heroic warriors wage intergalactic war against their unrelenting foe. Watch these men and women display wanton courage under fire

New Releases: Plural

I’ve been a little busy lately. You can see my work on my Patreon, otherwise you’re going to have to wait a few months to see the fully operational battle station …Err, finished books. Yeah. That’s what I meant. Finished product.Ahem.Anyway.Meanwhile, back on the farm, I’ve been released in two anthologies.First…Fantastic Schools, Volume #6Buy Fantastic Schools 6I suspect that if I lines up all

Shoot the Devil: anthology

Eric Postma once said that Saint Tommy was the book series to go to to watch a hero punch demons in the face.He approached me a while back about doing an anthology around a theme of Punching Demons.Punching Demons became something else.Buy it here

Fisking the Atlantic's fear of the Rosary

The following is from Aug 17, 2022, on my Substack. I thought y'all could enjoy this. The Atlantic released a hit piece on the Catholic church.So of course, everyone I know said, “Declan! Did you see this?”Well, now I have.And oh dear God, does my brain hurt.What is about to happen is a fisk. A fisk is basically a line by line refutation—and usually insulting—of something so unbelievably

Saint Tommy & the NYPD

My circles on social media are a mixed bag when it comes to police.My own attitudes have evolved over the past few years.I, personally, have never had a single instance of a negative encounter with the police.That’s diametrically opposed to a lot of my acquaintances, who have no use for the police—that’s because I hang out with a lot of Libertarians and other assorted gun owners. They don’t need

Alien Mafias! Vampires! Vatican Ninjas!

 There have been a few things to keep abreast of since I was away, so let’s cover them.First of all, do you remember this one?Honor at StakeOkay, maybe you don’t.It’s my “vampire romance”— except I have far, far more explosions than a lot of people in the romance genre appreciate.I found, much to my surprise, that the first half of the novels were character driven, (cough, with some fight