BACK TO THE FUTURE WITH KEYBANGERS BANGKOK

Keybangers Bangkok, March 27, 2022. Photo by Stephen Shaiken It’s been three years since I last met face-to face with Keybangers Bangkok, the writing group that has always nurtured and assisted me in countless ways. Some faces are familiar, others are new. Writers come from just about every corner of the globe: Romania, England , […]

“A Borrower Be”: If You Like Shakespeare, You’ll Love This Story

Shakespeare was right about “neither a borrower nor a lender be.”   Her’s a short story with a story of its own. Courtesy, National Gallery of Scotland Public Domain Courtesy, wallpaperit.com Every writer has a story they love, but no one else does. Sometimes the piece can be reworked; more often, it ends up stuffed in […]

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 […]