Faith, Fiction, Friends

Agatha Christie has the distinction of being the only crime writer who created two equally famous and revered characters – Miss Jane Marple ...

Like most if not all writers, I follow several writers who post and talk about the craft of writing. Like other writers, it’s helpful, encou...

My interest in reading, and writing, short stories has been growing for years. It started with the five Dancing Priest novels, which provide...

The Polish writer Wojciech Chmielewski isn’t exactly a household name in America, and for a very good reason. Up to now, none of his writing...

In the seven months since my last novel  Brookhaven  was published, I’ve been focused on talking about it, writing about it, publicizing it,...

Faith meets reality. Sometimes, it doesn’t work out as you expect it to, or as you think it should.  Growing up in a culture that’s saturate...

As I read  Cassandra’s Shadow: Stories  by M. Brosh, I had to keep checking to make sure I was reading fiction. After seeing about such rece...

In early May, I was reading   A Farewell to Arms   by Ernest Hemingway. Coincidentally, a writer named Harvey Stanbrough announced a writing...

Up to a point, the similarities between  John Kennedy Toole  and  Breece D’J Pancake  are uncanny.  Toole (1937-1969) wrote two novels. The ...

To understand the short stories of   Narine Abgaryan   in   To Go On Living , I realized rather quickly that I had to learn more about a con...

The Darkness Does Not Win – Kevin DeYoung at Clearly Reformed.  The Last Silent Night and the Silver-Haired Saints  – Doug Spurling.   “Chri...

Some years (decades) back, I discovered the stories of  Isaac Bashevis Singer . He was awarded  the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1978 , and...

A little girl tries to lead a normal life – dance revues, school – while the shadow of her mother’s illness seems everywhere. If she focuses...

I had several pieces of a novel-in-progress that I’d set aside from the manuscript. Two fell outside the overall timeline; I’d cut several o...

I’ve been reading stories and novels by American author  Louisa May Alcott  (1832-1888) to understand what the popular culture of the 1860s,...