Tag Archives: fiction

Truths

After a twenty year hiatus from writing, the very first online magazine that accepted a piece of my fiction was The Square Table. Like most literary magazines, The Square Table was a labor of love for someone dedicated to the … Continue reading

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Only Love Collection Released

Part 1 of a short story cycle. Three stories about two neighbors who meet as young children and grow up together on Long Island during the late 60′s and early 70′s.  The comforting and loving world they live in changes … Continue reading

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Natural Selection released on Amazon

My short story “Natural Selection” has been released as an eBook at Amazon.com.  This story has previously been available at Smashwords.com and other retailers (see my eBook Store Page), but this is the first time it is available at Amazon.com, … Continue reading

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The Art of the Novella: First Love by Ivan Turgenev

In the late 1850′s, three wealthy Russians have supper at the home of one of the men.  After the plates are cleared away and the middle-aged gentlemen are enjoying cigars, they trade stories of their first loves.  Two of them … Continue reading

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On Memory and Fiction

In part four of Ian McEwan’s Atonement, aging author Briony Tallis is revealed to be the author of the novel that comprises the previous three sections of the book.  She is dying of vascular dementia, and that this, her last … Continue reading

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