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7.26.17 Read my story ‘The Visitors’ in the new issue of Fantasia Divinity
Huzzah! My story, “The Visitors,” can now be read at Fantasia Divinity, as part of their July 2017 issue. Thanks to editor Madeline Stout, who saw the beauty in the tale. A sample: Tales tumbled from Ma’s mouth like ripe fruit from a summer tree. She would pierce each one open with her voice, sending…
Read More03.24.17 Terrorism in the era of ‘Black Mirror’: ‘It’s like we’re all living in a movie’
For your perspective consideration, please. I interviewed Charlie Brooker, the creator of “Black Mirror,” the anthology series about the dark forces in ourselves and our technology (catch it on Netflix), Thursday afternoon for an article I’m working on about technophobia in TV series. Needless to say, I was delighted: I’m a big fan of what…
Read More4.24.16 ‘Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to get through this thing called life’
The ability to disappear into the moment of creation with a writer is fairly dull to watch; that same blending/vanishing act, when performed on stage to a thumping beat and a heart-soaring melody, can be breathtaking.
Read More4.17.16 ‘Yes, there were little musicians’
Keep hard at work on the penny whistle lessons. You, too, could feel the Force one day.
Read MoreRing of Kerry, County Kerry, Ireland – May 1990
While studying abroad in my junior year of college in 1990, I took an extra month after school let out to stay in Ireland. I was heavily into studying Irish folklore and music at the time, and I had one primary goal (with a lot of secondary ones): see green all the way to the…
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