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My New Story is Available for Pre-Order

I found out yesterday my most recent story, a flash fiction piece called, "Clown Car, Driven Once, Never Emptied" has a pre-order page available for Kindle at Amazon.com. This was a story I had submitted to the first call for the theme (Coulrophobia; fear of clowns) back in April 2015. It didn't make that cut, but made it onto their follow-up anthology. You can blame a former co-worker for it. At the time, she told me she had bought a car of a non-standard color. I imagined it to be bubble-gum pink with polka dots, which led me to ask her, "Did you buy a used clown car?" Well, you might guess how this turned into a short story....

January 6, 2016
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Re-watching “The Wire”

I have had the pleasure of watching my fiancee watch "The Wire" for the first time. I had seen it some years ago, before I came to Baltimore. She has been immersed in the series, enjoying the many layers of the stories told. However, I can see why "The Wire" is not better liked. First, there are no clear-cut good guys or bad guys. All sides involved in the drama are presented as trying the best they can to reach their goals. It's to be expected when one of the long-running themes (and unspoken characters) of the series are the institutions we live with and become a part of as members of society. Law enforcement, labor unions, city hall, public schools, the press and the ubiquitous streets of Baltimore are all environments which squeeze the characters in certain ways. It's not unusual to see the people who care the least about the actual...

January 2, 2016
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