Wednesday, October 25, 2017

Oblivious

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It's how some of the best (and worst) horror stories begin: you're in the sticks, driving a series of windy mountain roads, somet...
Sunday, October 22, 2017

Heavens, What a Noise! and Others

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Photo by Sarah Smith An unexpectedly long weekend, the company of a nice lady, first-to-finds on a couple of geocaches, lots of wine, a...
Friday, October 20, 2017

Songwriters Showcase Tonight!

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Lately, I've been about as busy playing music — or something akin to it — as writing fiction. Of course, the composing of prose is my ...
Sunday, October 15, 2017

How to Conquer Quicksand

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Damned Rodan with a couple of old men ( Diefenbaker & Robgso ) in the background After almost ending up in a watery grave by takin...
Saturday, October 14, 2017

Far Above the Clouds

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The view from Lover's Leap on the Blue Ridge Parkway, about 7:00 AM Almost exactly five years ago, Ms. B. and I made our annual pilg...
Wednesday, October 11, 2017

"When I Was a Kid...

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Yeah, I found it. No, not the cache... the quicksand. ...I thought quicksand would be a much bigger problem." You see memes wit...
Wednesday, October 4, 2017

It, Watching — It, Scary

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While it's relatively rare for my stomach to start growling in hunger while reading about cannibalism, several of the stories in Eliz...
Wednesday, September 27, 2017

A Random Story of a Narrow Escape

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The cheery-looking, sizable winged fellow you see in the photo above is a Cicada-Killer Wasp ( Sphecius speciosus ). They're about t...
Sunday, September 24, 2017

Still Believing, Young Blood, and More

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Scary author with the novel Young Blood Ms. B. and I have returned home from a whirlwind weekend in Martinsville, which started Friday ...
Saturday, September 23, 2017

COMING UP: Danville's Fall Book Festival

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COMING UP: Brewed Awakening 's Fall Book Festival , on Saturday, September 30 , at the store, located at  610 Craghead St., Danville,...
Monday, September 11, 2017

On Never Forgetting

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Among the many thousands of horrifying images from 9/11/2001, to me, the most haunting may be those of the individuals who plummeted to t...
Friday, September 8, 2017

On the Return, at Its End

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It's probably safe to say that, as an adult-type human being, I haven't invested as much of my fannish energy and enthusiasm in an...
Monday, September 4, 2017

Light the Night

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On Saturday, October 7, I'll be participating in the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's " Light the Night " event as p...
Sunday, September 3, 2017

Writers' Round at The Daily Grind

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September is going to be a busy month, the weekend of 9/22–9/ 23 busiest of all, with two events in Martinsville, VA . On Friday 9/22, I...
Saturday, September 2, 2017

On the Fear of the Other

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Any literate soul who has read a word of my fiction, or at least taken note of the venues in which more than a small percentage of my wor...