The Northwest forests, dark and foreboding, hold many secrets, some mysterious, others enthralling and some that are best left to the forbidden darkness from where they reside. On a cool November afternoon, Marley stumbles onto one of these grim, shocking discoveries only to find that she has unwillingly become part of it. It was… Continue reading →
If you have read any of my stories, you’ll see that I am fascinated by houses of all varieties. For me, they have personalities that are quite aside from the people who inhabit them. In my experience, very few houses have had only one owner so there is an accumulation of fingerprints, voices, emotions that remain. Are… Continue reading →
Sometimes we are haunted as much by the future as we are by the past: The Sax Player is a raw and gritty account of a lonely musician mired in guilt and regret, serving the last of his troubled life in a grim purgatory of sordid roadhouses and bars. Struggling with his own humanity and… Continue reading →
What dreams await us? To what journeys will the darkness take us? Endless are the castles of sand and taunting whispers that echo back through the sunlight and then like phantoms are gone. The common destiny of all creatures is to live and die, and in the process gather up the best versions of their… Continue reading →
There’s a lovely old house nearby. I’ve never been inside, but I think of it as a place where one could sit next to the rock fireplace, a warm cup of coffee in one hand, an open book in the other, and be at peace with the world. I’ve often wished I could climb up that little stone path and sit on… Continue reading →
