RAZORED ZEN

All right. This will be my last Halloween Horror October story for the season. I hope to do this again next year, or something like it. I...

Had a very strange dream last night. In some dreams I’m one person all the way through. In others, I’m observing from above as an omniscie...

One thing I’ve realized about twist-ending stories is that there are usually several possible endings that can be produced by making only mi...

In thinking more about the primary topic of my last post, an idea for a flash piece occurred to me. And so, I give you “Isolation.” Stay t...

The new Shantytown Anomaly is out for Halloween. There are a couple of my horror haiku in it, and our own Greg Schwartz has a piece in it...

Does horror always have to be horrific? Or can it have a lighter touch? Humor and horror seldom go together in my mind, and I don’t think ...

My next flash fiction story, #4, will be up Friday but in the meantime there is plenty of new stuff to read regarding Halloween Horror Octob...

OK, here is my third Halloween flash story. It's a revision of something I once posted on another blog in response to a prompt. I hope...

My Halloween Flash #3 is almost ready but I probably won't get it posted till tomorrow. Today is Lana's birthday and we're off ...

Well, here is the second installment of Halloween Horror October. It's called "Spot." But don't rush away after you finis...

I love Halloween. Always have. I love spooky stuff. I love a haunted mood and a good gore fest both. So, in the spirit of the month, I p...

Novels have room for words, lots and lots of words. That doesn’t mean you can spend them unwisely, but it does mean you can loosen the cinc...

I’ve never written about TV. Maybe it's time. My family was one of the first in our neck of the Arkansas woods to get color TV. We wa...

Well, of the three articles I have to do for that mental health reference book, the ones on Neuropsychology and on Transvestism are complete...

I am told there are such beings as literary agents. I’ve even seen their footprints and heard their apparent calls in the great wilds of th...

I haven’t been keeping up with blogs well because I’m very busy working on a 2000 word article on “Fear” for a Mental Health reference book....

Well, I’m scrounging for blog posts at the moment, not having a lot of time outside of work to “think.” So, here’s a follow-up to my last p...

Some of you will get the references in this drunken piece of drivel, but only if you're a fan of a certain Little Old Band. There's...

I’ve seen quite a few blog posts lately on political issues. It’s understandable, given the times and the upcoming election. But I’m often...

The response to my Monday post suggested how important mood is to writing. It started me thinking that one of the primary goals of writing ...