Danger at Death’s Door: Mining Family History for Characters

My father is the family genealogist. He did extensive research into both his family and my mother’s family. Dad’s family is rather straightforward—all arriving in Texas in the 1870s and 1880s from what is now the Czech Republic. My mother’s mother was Irish American. Her parents arrived in the US …

The Wrong Side of History

My short crime story set in the future entitled “The Wrong Side of History” came out in the October 2021 issue of After Dinner Conversation. After Dinner Conversation is a magazine that prints short stories that provoke deeper ethical and philosophical discussions. The magazine will provide discussion questions to help promote …

Island Vibes and Other Stories

  The Bad Vibes Removal Services crew returns to solve murders and neutralize unpleasant emotional atmosphere in a second collection of three short stories: Therapeutic Vibes, Repetitive Vibes, and Island Vibes. These stories follow chronologically after the novel “The Walls Can Talk” in the Bad Vibes series. In “Repetitive Vibes,” …

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