Egyptian man smoking at the top of the Pyramid of Giza, Egypt in 1981. 📷: Louie Psihoyos

My story Bird People took an inordinately long time to write for some reason. It went through over ten separate revisions. I'm glad it has found a publisher. I look forward to reading the winner sorcova de corb and the other entrants.

Beseeching the heavens

A great deal of Soundgarden still holds up.

Some of you use AI to create thumbnail art, and that is because you're lazy and lack VISION. Some of us continue to make original masterpieces of thumbnail art such as this.

Why read my book, The Haunt on the Island of Esmer? I've never seen a superhero movie.

that feeling when you incarnate as an armored jawless fish in the year 470,000,000 B.C.

5:41am. Couple drinks. Working on a new ghost story, tentatively titled, "The Art of Fashioning Costumes to Join the Living." Saw this old book about making homemade Halloween costumes for kids, printed in the 60's. Then I put that together with the idea of a ghost from the

This is the 4th old man I've seen making videos of himself as a cartoon baby in the last 24 hours. I presume the nukes went off and we're in hell now

In discussions with Hashimoto Nagasaki, a persistent Japanese literary agent, who may be handling all foreign rights sales for me in the future. He keeps leaving me strange voice messages at the oddest hours. Before I sign anything, might post some and let others weigh-in.

little armored one

My short story, Bird People, is out at NEMESIS FICTION It's part of the series of short stories set in Florida, I've been writing over the last couple of years.

INT/Grocery Store ...at Publix, minutes before closing. Buying beer and three tins of cat food. (I pay cash. Forget self-checkout. Damn you Klaus Schwab!!!!!!!!!) "You have a cat?" -Cashier "Be even scarier, if I didn't." -Me Remainder of transaction occurs in silence.