Inside the Book: Stealing Away #9
The stories in my collection may seem a bit diverse, set in places from the Midwest to the Mideast, with plots dramatic and dark to light and reflective, but what…
The stories in my collection may seem a bit diverse, set in places from the Midwest to the Mideast, with plots dramatic and dark to light and reflective, but what…
Many of us have that urge from time to time to run away from it all. Everywhere I've gone in the world I've found those sorts of people, either hiding…
When the present doesn't satisfy us, we often either look forward to, or at least hope for, the future (hello, 2020!); or we seek refuge in nostalgia, wistful notions of…
I spent a year teaching in Turkey, and the experience was so amazing for me that I felt compelled to write a book about it: The Yogurt Man Cometh: Tales…
If 2020 taught me anything it was that staying informed is definitely important, but being glued to the news is not healthy either. "Sorting Things Out" is the story of…
Pairing Beers with Short Stories Next up, story #12 of 12: "An Inside Job." The narrator is a struggling guitar player whose hopes are pinned on getting a break someday…
Pairing Beers with Short Stories First up is #1 of 12, "Stealing Away," the title track to the album you can say. Diane, a teenage girl being raised by a…
I had a special bottle of barrel-aged beer, and I'd promised a writing buddy that I'd save it until one of us finished our next book. My book Stealing Away…