Death? Perhaps I’ve seen plenty of death, although we can never get enough. We’re not allowed to; the damned thing just keeps on comin’. And I doubt that we are morbid by nature; we simply have no control over the end of life beyond the magic and ministrations of good medicine from CAT scans to… Read More

...the woman ascending has never visited the devil. Read More

"Welcome to the American Dream, old man. Not so fast…" Read More

"...one band, one club, and one gig." Read More

“Heck,” my partner suggested “Go back to school. Who knows? — maybe you'll even learn something.” Read More

I had been swallowed by the perfect madness of the wilderness. Read More

I am a historian on the interstellar environment Samsara, circa 3200. I explore the many time capsules that were loaded aboard the craft before we departed earth. The capsules were loaded helter-skelter in the pre-launch rush, but I take great delight in randomly sampling their contents. Today I found several intriguing artifacts that had worked… Read More

How do you reconcile heartbreak and fear, sadness and jeopardy, and the sense that everything is ending? You don’t. Read More

The princess lost her startled expression, nodded, and looked deeper. I could see her think, Is this guy for real? How does he know about German expressionism? He’s a musician, for chrissake! Read More

Ronald Reagan, Oliver North, Henry Kissinger, Dick Cheney, George W. Bush, Condoleeza Rice, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Elliot Abrams and all the other nasty little Neo-Cons… Feel free to add to the rubbish list. It all goes into the dustbin of history. Read More