Non-Fiction
Announcements regarding non-fiction slated for publication.
Non-Fiction - The Cabbage Patch Fight
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"The Cabbage Patch Fight" is slated for publication in Soft Whispers Magazine (Christmas Issue, November 2009).
This essay is about how my mother got a Cabbage Patch doll as a Christmas present for my baby niece by punching out two other mothers in a Toy R Us brawl in the early 1980's. A violent incident that changed my life forever.
Updated 19 December 2010: Now available as an ebook from Amazon and Smashwords.
eBook - A Few Short Stories Omnibus Volume 2
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My newest fiction omnibus ebook, A Few Short Stories Omnibus Volume 2, is now available.
Read 14 flash and short stories from seven ebooks in this second omnibus volume for one low price, featuring: "Salt Of The Air," "Swine Of The Earth," "Honey Of The Fire," "Rice Of The Water," "Silent Observers," "A Leap Of Faith," "Dead Enders," "Saved By The Bell," "The Hungry Red Devil," "How Not to Stake A Vampire," "Hog Wild Under The Moon," "Golem Got The Blues," "An Unanswered Question," and "A Wild Fish Tale."
Save nearly $4 over buying all seven ebooks individually at $0.99 each.
eBook - Death At A Hell's Angels' Funeral
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My newest essay ebook, Death At A Hell's Angels' Funeral: Driving Past The Memories, is now available
The death of Jeffrey “Jethro” Pettigrew, the 54-year-old president of the San Jose chapter of the California Hell’s Angels motorcycle club, gunned down at a Nevada casino on Friday, September 23, 2011, meant nothing to me. A curious news item among many that caught my attention on that particular day while browsing a dozen news websites to satisfy my news junkie habit. Since I write speculative short stories, and I started focusing my efforts on becoming a California regional writer (i.e., the West Coast version of Stephen King, although much poorer and less prolific), I filed this news item away in the back of mind and forgot about it. The best ideas always float up like a dead body in a calm lake to demand to be written into a short story. Besides, I haven’t thought much about the Hell’s Angels since the early 1970’s, where they were less feared than the sheriff deputies that patrolled my childhood neighborhood.
This 3,635-word personal essay is about being stuck in a traffic jam outside the cemetery where 3,000 Hell's Angels attended a funeral and a shooting in Silicon Valley on Saturday, October 15, 2011.
