Rips in the fabric of culture--

Portrait of the artist as flourishing, flowering...Division page image by Clive Hicks-Jenkinsfor my just-out Maze of Blood (Mercer.)With this story, inspired by the lifeof Texas pulp writer Robert E. Howard,I got to revel in the life of someonewho died before I was born, whowas unlike me in almost all ways,save for his love of words.

My third child is now in college, and I've thought a lot