December, 2006

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Stealing The Marbles

The end of 06 draws nigh, it’s snowing in Albuquerque, and I have finally finished the rewrite of Stealing The Marbles. I liked the story well enough the first time around. It got me an agent, however unprofessional that agent may have conducted himself during the time he pretended toRead More …

Fluting in the Ruins

A year ago I spent Thanksgiving at the Abo Ruins and Christmas day driving through the Jemez Mountains. I was a bit under the weather this Thanksgiving (an odd expression, that. What would being over the weather mean?) and didn’t get away. This year on Christmas I made it downRead More …

Anansi Boys

Being the contrary person I am, I’ve been avoiding reading Neil Gaiman for much the same reason I avoided seeing the movie Jaws many years ago: Hype. When Jaws was released, it seemed like everywhere you turned, there it was; fin in the water, dum-dum-dum-dum echo in the air. Everyone,Read More …

Finn

Back when I was a wee lad, oh so many years ago, the nearest library was a mile away from my home, at the corner of Burt Road and Finkell Street in Detroit. In my child’s mind it was a vast stone building gleaming white as the heart of aRead More …