I’ve Got the Hots for Random Thoughts

I thought my son was singing jazz scat in the next room but he was just falling down the stairs. ☺ Surgery should always be a last resort, but if your appendix is about to burst, you should page through all your other resorts as quickly as possible. ☺ Technically, is it still a “self-help […]

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 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. […]