Driving the twenty forested miles to Coalbeck the next morning, he thought about Shayla, her hot skin, delicious saliva, intoxicating curves and the sidelong, wide-eyed glances that left him speechless. He almost missed the exit to a roadside pawn shop he'd noticed sev...

Li'l Salinger Girl dialed up her brother that afternoon, when Nelson had barely finished showering and shaving, before he had even had anything to eat. She told him where she was and that she'd be waiting for him. Though hungry, he threw his things into his suitcase an...

I'm nobody. Who are you? Are you nobody too? -- Emily Dickinson

illustration by Gareth Southwell

There's a certain freedom, if you're a writer, in the knowledge that very few people are going to read your blog posts. Sure, it's good practice to put together the best sent...

Raúl Garcia, my very long-time friend, and one of the founders of Edgefactory, a PR firm in Orlando, Florida, suggested creating a book launch event in our mutual home town for my new novel out from Liffey Press, the literary imprint of Oghma Creative Media, Inc. What...

My new novel, The Paraclete, was officially published on February 19, 2019, and launched the following Monday evening with a reading, discussion, and book-signing at Asheville's venerable independent bookstore, Malaprop's. More than fifty of my best friends turned out...

“Our robots would lie in bed, which was a piece of foam rubber on the floor, and watch the movies on the ceiling. You know what I mean by ‘our robots’?”

     “Of course,” I said. “Sort of like your bodies, as opposed to your minds, which were by then separate entities.”...

This morning I pulled out a fat file labelled "Essays and Story Ideas" to look for some notes I'm pretty sure only existed on a hard drive and were lost when that drive was dropped on a concrete floor. Sure enough, those notes were not in the file because I never print...

Atlanta-based writer Dawn Trowell Jones will read from and discuss her work on Saturday, July 7, 2018 at our next salon at the Microscopic Theater. Dawn is a speculative fiction writer and poet. She describes her writing as dark, hard fantasy and social science fiction...

     He walked from the house at seven a.m., having ignored his mother's request to move some sacks of millet before leaving. He had slept late, in fact. And after he rose, and dressed in his best overalls, flannel shirt, and shoes, he poured milk into a tin cup and fl...

Most of my subscribers know me as a writer, but I've had a serious hobby as a songwriter and sometimes performer going all the way back to the 1980s and really even further back than that.  My songwriter persona was Lightnin' Stubblefield.  As Lightnin' I recorded thre...