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I Couldn’t Wait Until New Year’s to Share This!

I’ll be back next week with a new Prydain recap – the first chapter of “The High King” – but in the meantime, I’m excited to announce I’ve just published a new story, “Up, Up and Hooray!” If you’ve read […]

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Musings on life, death, and the immortality of words

We interrupt this regularly scheduled “Taran Wanderer” chapter recap to reflect on the news events of this week – specifically, the deaths of Carrie Fisher (and her mother, Debbie Reynolds, a day later) and Richard Adams, author of my favorite […]

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Happy Halloween! What’s for dinner?

If you’ve read my short story, “Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself (and Spiders),” you might be curious about the meal that Macy prepares for Stan: “carrot bisque with sour cream drizzled into a spider web pattern on the top […]