Author's Note: Once again I have employed The Red Brick as setting for my favourite short story. Edson residents might recognize Edson,...

Inspiration is everywhere and most certainly lives in the most storied building in my little town. The Red Brick, once a school, now...

“Humor me,” Mabel’s physician, Everett, had said, insisting that she ‘At least take the tour!’ of the senior’s lodge. “You seem to think...

If ever a year existed when a dive into fiction was far preferable to reality, 2021 was it. (Although 2020 nipped hard at its heels, and...

Hattie never had much imagination, was never one to sneak or get into trouble, so that day, when she side-eyed me all sketchy and said,...

C*VID Fatigue is a phenomenon that's happening because we have been immersed in a traumatic event, with multiple losses, for well over...

Warning: this counseling session is not going to coddle you. Quality counseling sessions should never coddle you. After all, good therapy

Every year I challenge myself to read a variety of genres, yet every year a theme nonetheless emerges, and I will have gravitated to one...

After the very first rough draft of Within The Summit's Shadow was reviewed by my beta readers, one resounding criticism was consistent...

Today the horizon will swallow the sun early, plunging us into the darkest night of the year. How symbolic it is: a blackened day of...

As a kid, she was a prodigy and today she remains a virtuoso. Elizabeth McBrien, heroine of Within The Summit's Shadow, the second...

As a kid, she was a prodigy and today she remains a virtuoso. Elizabeth McBrien, heroine of Within The Summit's Shadow, the second...

Has it happened to you? An aggressor confronts you, loud and angry. unleashing a torrent of venom into your face. Your head races - a...

It's all about the food! What are you serving this year? Your tried-and-true Christmas cocktails? New appies or old favorites? Which side...

You see the memes every day: ‘Have an Attitude of Gratitude’ or ‘What if, today, we were just thankful?’ They’re cute, and in some vague...

Wrapped within the memories of our lives a soundtrack plays on—some tracks chosen and purposeful, others there because they just ‘fit’,...

The Infinity Club is a gilded den whose fine grain hardwood cradles one’s feet before supple leather offers softness to lounge upon. The...

Ellis wore no watch and did not own a calendar, yet his hands could read, by the bites of cold, how far the Earth had turned from the...

Author Lionel Shriver said “The fatal flaw of good people is that they believe everyone is just like them.” A few people have approached...

The Circleville Letter Writer It is 1976: Hair is feathered, dresses are long, and men’s suits are pastel polyester. Porn has become more...