The Vietnam Project
The Vietnam Project is comprised of 3 panels. The first of these is a novel I began years ago, about a grad...
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History
History  First it was the fragment singing its broken oratorio against the orotund and fragrant whole. We...
The Wovel
The Wovel  On Morning Edition today there was a piece on The Wovel, an audience plotted web novel. It is...
The Last Bender, Chapter 17
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Monozone was deep into panic. Beneath the zippered, gridlocked surface, under stockings,...
Old Dexterities in Witchery Gone: Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy These are perfect sonnets by the master. His thought is crabbed, his metre a little eccentric...
In Memoriam, Tim Congdon
Tim Congdon Tim sent me this in February of 2008. I will miss him. He ‘tore through the iron gates of...
The Last Bender, Chapter 16
CHAPTER SIXTEEN Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Every time I shut my eyes to sleep I saw exploding glass. Or felt the...
3 Berry Place, Darwin, Australia, 1983
This is a quixotic post, more personal than I usually do, and really, it’s just a signal sent out into...
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