E-BOOKS ETC...

Bullet Points:  And now for something completely different...  Written in response to reading (several years ago) the Beat and Black Mountain folks, this is the sort of thing that's usually called "experimental."  It's rather grim in content, concerned with mourning and suffering from the loss of a beloved pet to the slaughter of thousands on the battlefield.  Rather noir.  But as Raymond Chandler says somewhere, "in everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption." A full-length collection published by Barometric Pressures

The Whortleberry Psalter: The harmless old art professor has been fired because it was his fault that a priceless page from an illuminated manuscript has been stolen.  Now the unique and disturbing
serpent image from the Whortleberry Psalter is beginning to show up in graffiti around the city.  Maybe he can redeem himself if he can discover who has it and return it to the school.  But he's apparently not the only one searching...  And the others, whatever their motives, aren't so harmless. 
A novel available from Kindle

Odd  Jobs: In this memoir, a shirkaholic tells all, from hiding to escape childhood chores to
retirement.  How does anyone so dedicated to avoiding work end up working so hard for so many years?  I have shoveled chicken manure and taught English in China; driven tow trucks and been an industrial spy in the cosmetics industry—and done a dozen other odd jobs that, somehow, never quite panned out.
Nonfiction available from Kindle

Nowhere:And now for something else completely different: a collection of rhymed, metrical poems.  
Available gratis from SmashWords
Here's a sample:

Widow

She sips coffee from bone china,
The cup blessed with a hairline crack
And by the hand-rubbed patina
That makes heirlooms of bric-a-brac...

And love.  Not what we say or do,
A text much too complex to gloss,
But the sheen of years gives it value.
That will endure.  The rest is loss.

With a Heart Like That: Devotional poem without (I hope) any taint of religion.
Available gratis from SmashWords


 

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