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Peekaboo!, or I’m Right Here, Now Calm Down

Wow. I haven’t been here since April! What’s up withthat? If you actually follow and read my blog, you’ll know that I’m a full-time teacher, father of an 18-year-old high school graduate and soon-to-be-college freshman, a 3-year-and-9-month-year-old, a husband,and going through my master’s degree program online. I’ve been busy this summer, too. It will end, […]

Girls Like Superheroes, Too, You Know

It’s hard raising a daughter. Somehow, in 2016, I feel like the world has gotten tougher for girls. Maybe it’s because social media amplifies everything to a ridiculous volume, but it seems that times are getting…well…worse. The Tea Party movement created a backwards thinking environment that’s juxtaposed against a post-1960/70s Women’s Lib movement that has […]

From Krypton & Gotham to Gautham: Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)

Note: There will be SPOILERS here. Be warned! Also, this is essentially a first draft. Because of grad school and other commitments, my time is very scarce. I haven’t added any images, or have even really re-read it. My apologies on any lost thoughts. Someday, I may revise it and repost. But for now, because […]

Discover Me…Again, or Buy This Book, Please&ThankYou

It’s here!Discoveries: Best of Horror and Dark Fantasy, edited by James R. Beach and Jason V Brock, published from the great Dark Regions Press. Not only can you get it through the above links, but you can order through Amazonas well. Besides my story “The Umbrella People,” which I wrote about last time, there’s a […]

A Few Words on “The Umbrella People”

That handsome cover belongs to a reprint anthology my story “The Umbrella People” is a part of. There are stories by others whose names make me giddy, like Ray Bradbury, Kealan Patrick Burke, Elizabeth Engstrom, Tim Lebbon, John R. Little, William F. Nolan, John Shirley, Tim Waggoner, and so many others that my head’s […]

One Term Ends & Another Begins, or More Random Stuff For Your Entertainment Pleasure

All right, let’s do this! Yeah, I don’t buy that enthusiasm, either. Term 1 is done and so is my first grad class, which I passed with an A. I’ve already begun term 2. Go me. Echoes on the Pond, aka the novel, is finished. For real this time. It now weighs in at 114,800 […]

Wherein I Peek Out, Blink, & Weep, or What the Hell Is Going On, Anyway?

I posted a quick update at the end of week 1 of my grad school online course and wrote,“when I look at the syllabus, I see that the remaining nine weeks are going to be verybusy.” I am at the start of week 8 of 10. I haven’t completed week 7 yet. I shouldn’t be […]

Don’t Make Me Angry, I’m Always Angry, or Why You Should Go Eff Yourself

It was about a week before the new school year was to begin, this past summer, almost two months back now. Pamela and G had just gone to bed so it was sometime between 8 and 8:30. I was in the kitchen, reaching for the sugar to make my tea and thinking about the […]

Grad School: Week 1, or Through the Looking Glass & What Bill Learned There

Today is the end of myfirst week as a grad student. I have no fucking idea what I’m doing. Because I don’t have time to drive and attend an actual brick-and-mortar class, I’m doing my Master’s program online. I decided to do English Lit because that’s what I did for undergrad and because I think […]

Kids These Days, or You’re Old, Shut Up

Twice in the last 48 hours on my Facebook feed I’ve seen posts that start with “Kids these days…” or some equivalent. Whenever I hear that, especially coming from someone my age or within shooting distance of my age (I was born in 1977), my immediate response is, “Fuck you.” I can’t help it. […]