Category Archives: Fiction

This is where I will post samples of stories I am working on, or other stuff, as I see fit.

Mending fences

I started this story in the spring, intending to enter it in a holiday story contest. I didn’t read the rules carefully enough: It was a Thanksgiving-Christmas holiday contest, and this is a July 4  story. It’s not done and … Continue reading

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Typical day

Was today typical? Yeah sure. Coffee, toast. Walk the dog. Talk to the neighbors about why the young couple didn’t buy the big house on the street they had been fixing for the past year….wondering what finally scared them off. … Continue reading

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Nagler 6: NAGLER’S SECRET. Who is the yearbook girl?

Emerging in book six of The Frank Nagler mysteries, NAGLER’S SECRET is the identity of a woman who has appeared as a redhead, in a couple of blurry snapshots, and might be a women in an undated Polaroid photo in … Continue reading

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Out of a Covid fog, comes writing clarity

Turns out the very heavy cold I had for the past week was Covid. It was like being in a waking coma. Everything shut down to a narrow focus as my immune system attacked the virus. Real time didn’t matter—light … Continue reading

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Are there things you try to practice daily to live a more sustainable lifestyle? Started more than 20 years ago…replaced incandescent Luba with eventually led… solar security lights electric lawnmowers and now fully electric yard tools…finally solar on the roof … Continue reading

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What’s the most delicious thing you’ve ever eaten? A plate of fresh fried clams and hot. Dripping butter lobster and on the outdoor deck at Shaw’s wharf new village Maine ..fresh sea air and swarming seagulls

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If you were forced to wear one outfit over and over again, what would it be? I pretty much gave up formality yet years ago … so jeans are the outfit… no forcing no weighty thought process …wear em till … Continue reading

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How do you waste the most time every day? Define waste…are we all type As turning every moment into progress, every action into a win…maybe that’s the waste…how about seeking old friends and lovers making peace sitting in the yard … Continue reading

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How do you want to retire? We leave jobs but our skills are used in different ways…. Retirement is an ad campaign…there is always work to be done

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Nagler 6: Internet tag

In the Frank Nagler Mystery work-in-progress, NAGLER’S SECRET, a woman with changing hair color and a hidden past has been flitting at the edges of the story. In this scene with reporter Jimmy Dawson, she begins her slide into the … Continue reading

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