Number eight is in the books! My eighth story, “Left Field,” was published on May 3, 2018 in Lit Up magazine. Lit Up (link here) is an online magazine housed at Medium, which in all honesty was new to me until about a month ago. In that time, I have joined the blogging platform, published […]
Winter into Spring
It’s been a long winter. This week has been the first since last fall that temperatures are projected to crest consistently above the 55 degree mark. With the upsurge in spring like weather, it can be easy (well, not so easy, really), to forget the sins of season’s past. Winter wasn’t that bad, and Maybe […]
On the Listening
“They go on…they walk ahead into the darkness, and they do not come back. The place they go towards is a place even less imaginable to most of us than the city of happiness. I cannot describe it at all. It is possible that it does not exist. But they seem to know where they […]
State of (My) Reading, 2017
1. Introduction to the End of the Year Post So here we are . On the precipice of a new year, and, as such, a natural time to reflect on the year that was. You don’t have to look far to discover a bevy of year-end reviews: best books, best movies, best television shows, best […]
Schuyler Avenue Storms and the Role of Place in Fiction
The oldest memory I have of my hometown has to do with a breezy August day, the threat of a storm, and an abandoned Big Wheel. We had gathered- the kids of Schuyler Avenue: the Dispensa brothers, Nick, Chris, and Mike, Kenny Roberts, Dawn Sturgess, Susie Domanico- the regulars, mostly older kids, to discuss the […]
Scary Stories
The wind is blowing, the tree limbs are bare, and the moon is casting pale, silvery shadows across the back yard. Wolves howl down the street, vampires flap around the deck, and ghosts haunt the dark recesses of my darkened house. I’m feeling in a Halloween mood, and that means it’s my time to look […]