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Never the Same

Who is Ellie Dubeck’s real father? The Depression and the entertainment industry affect her personal saga and American society as she discovers the truth.

Writing Prides of Sol

Again, the Oo’ahan Hegemony approaches. Not in stealth, or subterfuge. A renewed enemy within and a massive armada of invincible ships.

Poetry of Louise Glück

Every year when the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature is announced, I like to read the recipient’s work and decide if I concur with the choice.

Reflections on Year’s End

It’s New Years Eve, and around the world people are celebrating. But what am I doing? I’m writing about how I feel about the year just ended.

Writing Children of Danu

In the Prides of Sol series arc, the back-story centers around a star system named Tir Na n’Og, and the single planet in the system known as Danu.

Editing the Way I Like to Do It

Editing is hard work, but not the mind-numbing drudgery one might expect. Seems to me the biggest issue is that the eyes see what the mind expects.

The Grim War

The teeming billions of Earth are unaware of the message they have sent into the void. An electromagnetic message saying, here I am.

Children of Danu

Before the Earth was formed, before the galaxy existed, an unending mordant contest rendered all ancient domains incapable of sustaining life.

Women at the Well

Dramatic monologues in which sixty-one Biblical women tell their sides of the stories, some strident and defiant, others humorous.

Voice of Stone

The lives of a silversmith’s family and a stonecutter’s family in the twenty-five years before Francisco Pizarro’s 1532 arrival in Peru.

The Wheels of Being

A bizarre vagabond with a fantastical imagination joins up with a businessman to come up with a “bigger is better” plan to transform a small Illinois town.

The Pluperfect Phantom

Time travel? Time machines? Is that really possible? Maybe. And what if a criminal genius discovered a way to travel from the 1890s into modern-day Chicago?

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