Fiction & Verse
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Recent Writing
Four April Rondels
Well, four kinds of rondel, and another cycle of spring detritus. . . .
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.
Novel
ImageMaker: First Shade
Premiere of Olenthe Series:
Early works now available
Short Story
Story 4
On How Murder is Sometimes Justified