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The Map Behind Miles Davis
“… alright, college isn’t for you either,” Nomi says, “come see me, then. I don’t dance anymore. I drive a cab now, free rides up and down the electric strip, little sis.” The connection on the phone...
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Uno Kudo Interview: Gus Sanchez
Today, I’d like to post an interview I conducted with Uno Kudo writer Gus Sanchez, who’s two stories were published in Vol. One and Volume Two of Uno Kudo’s art meets lit. yearly anthology. Gus Sanchez...
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The Lemur and the Thief
All his life, he’d been a thief. It was all he knew. He could expertly pick any lock, snake between the sensors of security systems, slip through an army of guards, undetected. But, he was getting old...
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The Silver Face
I was at a costume party: a warehouse in the city. I had on a silver mask that had been given to me as a gift by a strange girl I’d met while waiting out a rainstorm underneath an overhang. The party...
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How to Write a Short Story
I’ve been meeting a lot of people who wonder, “How is a short story written, what is involved?” I figured I’d break it down into simple steps. They don’t have to be followed exactly, but, they’ll...
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Tollbooth: Chapters 8-10
*** continuing the serialization of Tollbooth*** click here to start at the beginning Here in Bud Smith land, I’m gearing up for a few release parties for Tollbooth down in New Jersey where this book...
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Tollbooth: Chapters 14-15
*** continuing the serialization of the novel Tollbooth*** click here to start at the beginning 14 It was getting too dangerous for my porn collection: there was too much of it inside too small of a...
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Tollbooth: Chapters 16-18
*** continuing the serialization of the novel Tollbooth*** click here to start at the beginning 16 I drove around the random neighborhood in an ever broadening circle that neared the tollbooth. The...
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Short Story “The Frog” published at Bartleby Snopes
Today, I go word that my story “The Frog” is running at the website Bartleby Snopes. I’m a fan of the site, and am pleased to see the story find a home there. You can read it here A quick set up, The...
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Book Giveaway for Tollbooth
I set up a book giveaway for my novel Tollbooth, out from Piscataway House. The giveaway will last 30 days, enter to win with the click of a god dang button. We’re giving away 5 signed paperback...
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Tollbooth Serialized on this website
Been a little while, posting this, with plans to keep on posting Chapters from Tollbooth on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The book is serialized here on this website, so far we’re about 65 pages into the...
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Tollbooth Serialized (chapters 25-26)
*** continuing the serialization of Tollbooth*** click here to start at the beginning 142C Sarah was pregnant and driving through town. She still suffered from the occasional nightmare about my old...
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Why I Like My Record Player
All morning I’ve been sitting here listening to the Rolling Stones album, Let it Bleed. I mean, I’ve been doing other things besides just sitting here. Mostly, writing stuff: an article a website...
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The Dark Sunshine by Len Kuntz
#1, this was a great book. If this review was written in the style of the Dark Sunshine, it would be incredibly concise, dark (of course), expansive in use of both imagination and pulse. Instead, this...
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Good Luck Poem
it just happened, a bird shit on me—so begins the good luck streak off in the distance the cowgirl sings her saddest song but I am payday invincible nothing will be wrong every beer bottle that falls...
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THINGS HAPPENED! Two new pieces published in/on/in the net
Things happened: 1. got in a severe car crash (but I’m okay) 2. have pnemonia (but I’m okay) 3. have two recent publications to share with you. Here is a piece of strange flash fiction called “Leaving...
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Short Story Published at Smoke Long
Happy to see that my short story “Junior In The Tunnels” is running at Smoke Long Quarterly. I really like Smoke Long and was thrilled that they took this particular one. You can check it out here...
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The Wreck I was In
A month ago, I was in a pretty severe car crash right in front of a toll plaza. The crash eerily echoed the opening pages of my last novel Tollbooth. (You can read the first chapter here) Here’s what...
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Interviewed at About.com
Hi there, About Dot Com interviewed me about writing fiction, being creative in an industrial slum, daily grind becoming art — as they say “finding inspiration in the mundane” If you’re in the mood...
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E – A – D – G – B – E
I even slept with my prized guitar in my hands. How much I loved it. Ate breakfast while practicing pentatonic or mixolydian scales at the table, dipping down to my plate like I was at a pie eating...
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