March 17, 2020

My essay on the origin of insect wings has been selected for the Adelaide Literary Award Anthology 2019. 

June 13, 2019

“Morning, Ray.”
           

It’s six o clock in the morning. Sunrise is still a ways off. Ray barely looks up from the pump engine he’s bent over like some kind of medieval hunchback. “Mornin’ Pat,” he drawls. 

February 18, 2019

I’m lying on the sofa in my bungalow, reading the same issue of Discover magazine for the twenty-ninth time. They don’t have much in the way of printed matter in this country, I’m thinking to myself, when I hear a knock at the door. I already know who it is, even before I get off the couch and fling open the door to find the Small Girl standing my my doorstep.

May 15, 2017

This story begins many years ago, back when I was still almost-young...

February 26, 2017

Did I ever tell you about my one degree of separation from Dwight David Eisenhower? That's right, between me and the thirty-fourth president of the United States of America there is but one degree of separation -- thanks to my friendship with Old Mrs. Knight.