The Singer: a thriller In The Singer, Rock, the leader of the massively-popular stadium-touring band, The Light disappears off the face of the earth. Ten years later, super-fan and tribute-band leader Thatcher Graves hires a seemingly homeless drifter named Gordy as his new vocalist. Convinced his new hire may be the actual missing rock icon,…

Succubus: a supernatural suspense thriller
Succubus: a supernatural suspense thriller Logan Baker was just doing a favor for a dying relative, but when he enters a mysterious, fenced-off desert compound, he falls under the spell of an alluring but frightening entity calling itself Constance. Sick from her influence, his relative now missing, and with someone trying to burn his entire…

Winning from last place
This past weekend, I participated in a three-day mountain-bike race. Held at McDowell Mountain Park in Fountain Hills, Arizona, The Cactus Cup draws a few hundred competitors of all levels and ages, and is a great chance to be outside, camp, and ride and race bicycles on gorgeous desert trails. Day one was a time-trial…

How Could You Do This To Us?
“Where the hell have you gone? We had a deal. A plan. You were supposed to be here, in the box, on the table, waiting for your turn to be locked into the puzzle.” “What’s the problem?” “What do you mean ‘What’s the Problem?’ Do you not understand the pain you’ve caused us, buggering off…

An Irrational Love of Junk Food
I don’t feel well. There is a complaint in my stomach. It feels like I’m carrying a sack of gravel in a pouch above my naval. But I am not surprised. This happens to me wherever I eat too much of certain foods. Like the Big Texas Cinnamon Roll sitting on my desk right now….

Pandemic Celebration
T’s Pandemic birthday We have eight grandchildren. All of them are unique and different and amazing in their own ways. We love to spoil them, especially on their birthdays. But the pandemic has thrown all types of social celebration into purgatory. T turned 10 this week. Her birthday consists of a boxed grocery store cake…