Tag Archives: “The Weight of Living”

The thing is gone. I’m alive

The moment wants noise, screaming Running leaping, rolling after falling laying in wetness back to the ground face to the sky shouting Yes! Yes! Yes! The thing is gone. Grey and white in the photos; fitting. That thing they found … Continue reading

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For hire: Free agent mystery writer

Baseball fans will understand the term: Designated for assignment. That makes  me, Mystery Writer, free agent. But I don’t have to pass through waivers. The want ad says: Open to right offer. This came about because the publisher of my … Continue reading

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Nagler 6: Does she know Nagler’s secret?

In Book 6 of the Frank Nagler Mysteries, NAGLER’S SECRET, a work in progress, there was an event in September 1994 that is at the heart of the secret that left Detective Frank Nagler shaken. There is  also a young … Continue reading

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Finding the hole at the bottom of NAGLER’S SECRET

Sometimes writing a story is like walking in a dark room blindfolded. You bump into walls a lot until you find the door. That’s what I was doing with the sixth Frank Nagler Mystery, “NAGLER’S SECRET.” I was writing fun … Continue reading

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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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A letter from a burning world

They pulled us off the line last night, kid.  Out of the fire. But the air is burning still, tastes of ash, smells like wet charcoal. It gets sucked into your skin, where it grinds into your pores. When does … Continue reading

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