Years ago, I read Heinlein’s The Puppet Masters for a course.  I was underwhelmed; it was a fairly good story, but nothing special.  Admittedly, for me as a reader, it was more difficult to become engaged because the female lead was prob…

I recently did a “Boot Camp” with the goal of writing a flash fiction or poetry piece, per day, for two weeks.  I mostly concentrated on flash because that was what I “needed” for submission purposes, but I did finish four poems.  (I partly s…

I’ll be posting more from my Scylla and Charybdis playlist once I have a release date for the novel, but in the meantime, here’s a “general purpose” song on it that I really like simply because it’s imaginative and joyous:In The Arms Of The Milky …