Category Archives: Hackettstown Public Library

Nagler’s Secret: Silence and tension

In NAGLER’S SECRET, the work-in-progress Book six of the Frank Nagler Mystery series, Ironton, N.J. Detective Frank Nagler and others have been examining an  old farm house that could be the headquarters of a shadowy outfit called Sunshine Farms. In … Continue reading

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Fossils

The sun will consume us in a few billion years. Gas billows blow across space, so quick in an instant we won’t have time to look up to call to scream to whisper those last unsaid words; dust. The gray … Continue reading

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Big NYC Award for DRAGONY RISING

I am honored and excited to announce that DRAGONY RISING, book 5 in the Frank Nagler Mystery Series, has been named a  DISTINGUISHED FAVORITE in the 2023 Big NYC  Book Awards. Dragony Rising joins other Frank Nagler Mysteries as multi-award … Continue reading

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Tired of war

Tired of war. Tired of towers falling Of remembering battles with piled dead Of reasons that have no truth Blustering babble, too much noise From thrust out medaled chests, Fists raised then pounding Launching sky shrieking Red-tailed smoke filled sunsets … Continue reading

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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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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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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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Stand with the theater kids as they stand up to censors

Cheers to some  Fort Wayne, Indiana high school thespians who defied religious censors and the local school board, which banned the play, by performing it on their own outside the  school. The play featured roles  of interchangeable sexuality and clearly … Continue reading

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Not yet, we say. Not yet

1. We are surprised when the darkness lands. It is never our time; hope fractured. Because we always  hope. New companions: The broken heart, the fear, the endless closing shade That makes it hard to breathe; The creeping loneliness, some … Continue reading

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