I asked myself the other day, “What would be a really good date to take you on?” So I answered myself in my prose, English-major sort of way (which actually brought me to tears – because I’m that cheesy). I said… … I want to spend a day or so …
it’s the tick of a stranger-clock in an unfamiliar room the scratch of enchanted bones in a dark and haunted tomb uneven steps of a gallows-walk and the dancing of the dead the cries and un-stifled moans you hear inside your head it’s the shrieks in the blood of silent …
THE HOBBIT; A Pre-Movie(s) Review “”Balin and Dwalin,” they said not daring to be offended, and sat flop on the floor looking rather surprised.” – The Hobbit, Chapter Seven. J.R.R. Tolkien”s tale The Hobbit is beautifully and comically written. Tolkien is such a wonderful storyteller that the tale of Bilbo Baggins and Thorin and …
Here’s the thing. I’m from a small town in rural Minnesota. Small towns have a connotation of people being small-minded and limited in their worldview. Furthermore, Minnesota as a state is treated like the small town of the rest of the country. And what’s worse is people here buy into …
I’ve taken a break from updating my blog, as some of you may have noticed. This isn’t because I don’t have anything to write about. Rather, it’s because I’ve been busy writing a few new projects. These have been a little difficult to work through. The challenge I’ve discovered in …
I have been away from the internet for nearly a week and now that I’m back there’s one thing I want to be sure to tell you first. And that is: Do not travel by Amtrak. I will give my reasons for this, but I rather start with the good …
I thought I’d share a bit of mostly non-fictional prose I wrote back when I was still living in California. I wrote this to work some tension before going to bed. It was written to deal with my being a little freaked out by my neighbor (the tenant in my landlord’s …
For years I have been called obsessive or infatuated or things along those lines all due to my ability to bring up information, quotes, or descriptions from memory. These well-meaning people assumed that I would only remember that information if I had committed it to memory through diligent, fanatical study. …
Image: Property of BBC. (A stunning and evocative bit of cinematography). Spoilers, of course. I”m finding it difficult to talk about the Sherlock episode, The Reichenbach Fall. It was, as usual, brilliant and beautifully done. The story was sharp and compelling. The cinematography was great. The acting, well, the acting …
Image; property of BBC. Keeping with my series of posts, today I am writing about the Sherlock episode The Hounds of Baskerville. This is the gripping story that not only takes our leads out of London, but gives us a chance to see them wrestle complete terror when the sense of sight …
