LIZ CHENEY, PROFILE IN COURAGE AND INDEPENDENCE DAY HERO

This is what I call a Profile in Courage. A rock-ribbed Republican conservative explains to her constituents what the Constitution really means and vows to always put the Constitution and the country above her party. Any Republican fool can get up in front of a bunch of Trump cultists and repeat the Big Lie, as […]

Read My Latest Short Story:”A Well-Dressed Man”

Why does a short story, whose title suggests a sartorial theme, start with a picture of a smiling crocodile? You’ll have to read it to find out!  After publishing the second novel in my Bangkok-based NJA Club series  ( Click here to visit Bangkok Shadows page, and Click here to visit Bangkok Whispers page)  I […]

“A Shot in the Ass”: My Just-Published Short Story

I wrote this short story a few years ago, when living in Bangkok, and presented it to my writing group, KEYBANGERS BANGKOK. As usual, their input proved invaluable. I reworked it and showed it to the Tampa Writers Alliance, who liked it and persuaded me that it really fell within the historical fiction genre. Up until […]

WHAT MAKES WRITING “HISTORICAL FICTION” ?

Left to right: Salida, Colorado, once a booming mining town;  Tutankhamen Exhibit, Paris, France; Sign where the Berlin Wall stood. (Photos by author). I recently submitted a short story to my writing group. It was fairly well received, with some very constructive critiques, the kind that make a story even better. What surprised me was […]