Fiction & Verse
et cetera
Recent Writing
Blood and Tide (Esmond Series)
. . . but the edges have eroded, bluntered and edgeless. Warfarin-thin. A swiftwater rush, . . . Esmond breathes.
Esmond at the Factory
Esmond has no need to see the abandoned starling nest to his right: he hears, echoing still, seven generations of them across the past nine years, jumbled warblings and desperate imitations of jays to hold off predators. . .
Upon This Night We Sing; per nozze
Those ancient practices of bedding ceremonies and virgin-testing are, fortunately, behind us.
Multitudes
Admittedly, this “poem” has a bit of inside/very local humor, mostly as an affront to aesthetic decency. Still . . .
Mansur of Dasht-e Kavir
The masnavi is a kind of Persian narrative poetry with rhyming couplets, often with morals around Sufi mysticism, ethics, and theology. My lessons are perhaps more deconstructive illuminations.
Of Kings and Things
When writing children’s verse, it’s hard to see where sincerity ends and parody begins . . . .
Novel
ImageMaker: First Shade
Premiere of Olenthe Series:
Early works now available
Short Story
Story 4
On How Murder is Sometimes Justified