Musings

Publishing in the Golden Age of Competition is a long exposition on why the publishing industry is forever changed.

The End of Books talks about changes in the publishing industry due to the emergence of ebooks.

Taking a Coffee Break may not be the best way to rest and refresh the brain so that it quickly returns to peak function.

Flash Fiction

The Dead Imago is an interpretation of the aftermath of the sacrifice of Isaac.

On a Damp, Cold Morning describes how a young man starts his day.

In the First Person

I feel exquisite pleasure in dwelling on the recollections of childhood, before misfortune had tainted my mind and changed its bright visions of extensive usefulness into gloomy and narrow reflections upon self. Besides, in drawing the picture of my early days, I also record those events which led, by insensible steps, to my after tale of misery, for when I would account to myself for the birth of that passion which afterwards ruled my destiny I find it arise, like a mountain river, from ignoble and almost forgotten sources; but, swelling as it proceeded, it became the torrent which, in its course, has swept away all my hopes and joys.

Mary W. Shelley, Frankenstein


Ordinarily I believe that I have as high a spirit as the average man, and as solid a resolution; but when one has been dragged through the Valley of Humiliation, and plunged, again and again, into the Waters of Bitterness and Privation, a man can be constrained to a course of action of which, in his happier moments, he would have deemed himself incapable. I know this of my own knowledge.

Richard Marsh: The Beetle