A mesmerizing single-sitting read if you’re up for it. QUICHOTTE is yet another sample of Rushdie’s prose-magic–or “metaphoric roguery”–a serpentine… Read more QUICHOTTE by Salman Rushdie
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“STORY OF YOUR LIFE” by Ted Chiang: a structural review
TED CHIANG’s amazing imagination together with his knowledge of math, science, mechanics, and linguistics has gifted us with a volume… Read more “STORY OF YOUR LIFE” by Ted Chiang: a structural review
A VSS365 TWEET ANTHOLOGY
Collected shorts poetic, dark, eerie, and amazing. See them (with one of mine) at VSS365 Anthology Volume One available on… Read more A VSS365 TWEET ANTHOLOGY
WARTIME SPARROWS
A post World War II mystery about American servicemen in Great Britain and the suspicious death of a local girl. … Read more WARTIME SPARROWS
Putting on the Wellies: Home Research
Classic: Roget’s Thesaurus. Online: powerthesaurus.org Dictionaries: The Oxford English Dictionary (OED), especially useful for establishing historical word use Webster’s Encyclopedic… Read more Putting on the Wellies: Home Research
FIVE STAR Novels of Missing Persons
Jonathan Letham: THE FERAL DETECTIVE. A gripping journey, in the company of Phoebe and the feral Detective Charles Heist, into… Read more FIVE STAR Novels of Missing Persons
TWEETS: BIGGISH SCORES
No need for sculling across her home sky, a god floats on her back. Perfectly white with no threat of… Read more TWEETS: BIGGISH SCORES
STRAY THOUGHTS
She hears the house first. It cries like a hungry bairn. It belongs to Quality but seems familiar. Inquisitive like… Read more STRAY THOUGHTS
THE MURDER BOUTIQUE
In the Journal of Speculative Fiction, Kyanite Press (Issue 5/Vol. 1/May-June 2019) pages 64-75. In a world of universal surveillance,… Read more THE MURDER BOUTIQUE
FIVE STAR INDIE BOOKS
Elliott Downing: The Keys of the Kingdom. Self-Published. A compelling short fiction dealing with the public exploitation of private grief… Read more FIVE STAR INDIE BOOKS