Kindle vs Books: Why Books are Better

While reading a book, you often have to wet your fingers to turn pages. If you switch to Kindle, you’ll forget what your fingers taste like. Studies show that people retain more information from a book than electronic media. So, if you know a book’s going to be just awful, go with the Kindle. Reading […]

Works that I Worked on that Never Worked Out

A fictionalized account of the Bible where random people talk like Joe Pesci. For example, Solomon glared irritably from his throne, “So, I like, have a crown, so I’m here for your amusement, is that what you’re saying?” A book of critical literary essays. The first essay would criticize John Steinbeck’s Cannery Row. The second […]

Books By Successful Authors that Failed Utterly

The Da Vinci Cod by Dan Brown: Symbologist Robert Langdon scours the western world for a fish whose face looks like the Mona Lisa. The fish supposedly grants wishes. A shadowy albino character also seeks the elusive magic fish… with the intent to KEEP WISHING FOR MORE WISHES. The climax of the book was so […]

Desire Under the Alligators: Last Four Chapters

[These are the final chapters to the outline of my romance novel, Desire Under the Alligators. The first three chapters can be read here; and, the second three chapters are, conveniently enough, right here.] Chapter 7: At the start of this chapter, every main character dies… or do they? Actually, it is subtext to an […]

Desire Under the Alligators, Chapters 4 – 6

[You’ll find the first three chapters here] Chapter 4: Things get complicated when Rodney hires a beautiful young grad student to calm the audience during the big alligator parade at the climax of the act. The woman’s name is “Busty Minx”, although her stage name is “Sara Fowler”. Sara draws the attention of the two […]

Desire Under the Alligators Chapters 1 – 3

[What follows is an idea for a romance novel that I came up, last year. It is a heart-warming, sensitive piece of dreck I think the general public will eat up like the hogs that they are… Chapters 4 – 6 are here] Chapter 1. Sally Golimply is born in the slums of Vatican City. […]

Snippets from Fiction I Will Never Publish

“I am the LAST MAN ON EARTH”, he yelled at the sky. Little did he knew that everyone in the world was, at that very moment, standing RIGHT BEHIND HIM!!! …”Listen carefully”, said Sergeant Hart, “The calls are coming from INSIDE YOUR HOUSE” Anne gasped and looked down, “Oh good lord!”, she exclaimed, “I’ve been […]