Beautiful Mount Airy Lodge

I still had some finishing touches to do for my next book so, to cut down on the distraction level; I went my parents in the hinterlands of Pennsylvania for some uninterrupted work time. It’s like a writer’s retreat on the cheap. My parents make sure I’m fed, sleep...

You Will Respect My Authoritah!

It’s a dazzling bright sunny day and I have to drive to the supermarket. Oh goody, I get to wear my sunglasses. But they’re not just any sunglasses, mind you. They’re my thousand-yard stare enhancing Ray-Ban Louisiana State Trooper sunglasses. When I stop at a traffic...

Ferris Wheel

I’m in a small white building attending a seminar I really don’t want to be at. I think the topic’s religion. When we break for coffee I walk over to the glass wall that makes up the front of the building and look outside. In the distance high atop a hill, a huge...

CAFÉ DE LIQUIDATION

CAFÉ DE LIQUIDATION “We make all your problems disappear – deliciously” Lè Menu Primi * Threatening phone calls delivered with a flavoring of subtle menace. 20 * Threatening phone calls delivered with powerful overtones of menace. 25 * Line caught Chilean...

Beneath the Waves

I’m at the dog park with Buster enjoying a beautiful day when one of the regulars taps me on the shoulder. “Hey,” he says. “Look. There’s a hawk over there.” I turn around and see a large brown hawk standing fifty yards outside the fence. “Wow,” I say. “There’s...