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Throwing knives: How often do they come up in literature?

Posted on December 3, 2015 by

Throwing knives–knives you throw for sport–have a role in my novel The Man Who Asked to Be Killed.  I was surprised to find throwing knives in a 2013 post “Two Asians and a Hag” on the blog Speak Loser, Speak by … Continue reading →

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Goats, anyone?

Posted on November 19, 2015 by

I never gave goats a thought until last spring when I read Joyce Renwick‘s posthumous short-story volume In Praise of What Persists. A goat stars in the story “The Goat.”  “I kept finding the goat wandering in the dining room, or … Continue reading →

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Happy Father’s Day

Posted on June 19, 2015 by

I have a fondness for Mobius: A Journal of Social Change (they published my short story, “The Yearbook,” after all), so I occasional peruse the fiction there. In “Additives” by Paul K. Binford a boy is working on the carburetor of … Continue reading →

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North Dixie Highway: review and interview with author Joseph D Haske

Posted on March 12, 2015 by

  A prologue explains that no single “Dixie Highway” exists, but instead the term applies to roads south that reach as far north as Canada. Haske’s story lives in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Publisher Texas Review Press offers, in part: “Weaving … Continue reading →

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A little tranquility, no? And change of pace for those of you snowed in.

Posted on February 19, 2015 by

Reblogged from NelsonCarpenter.tumblr.com, there reblogged from onmyowntwohands.tumblr.com; source capturedphotos.tumblr.com NelsonCarpenter.tumblr.com remains one of my favorite blogs.

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What’s autobiographical in The Man Who Asked to Be Killed?

Posted on February 4, 2015 by

After my interview in Omnimystery News last week, I was asked back to do a guest post on Omnimystery. I write about autobiographical details in The Man Who Asked to Be Killed. To read my post on Omnimystery, click here.

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Two men dancing in the late 1800s

Posted on September 1, 2014 by

Reblogged here from the marvelous tumblr, Lover of Beauty , there captioned as “Experimental Sound Film (dir. William Dickson — 1894)” and cited as “originally posted by truefoes.” Consider this unrelated but relevant quote from Intersecting Tango : Cultural Geographies of Buenos … Continue reading →

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