An eight-year-old Brownie Scout marshals her troop, the Browntown Ocelots, to save the world, Santa Claus, and Christmas as... More > we know it, assisted by Walt and Madge, her bewildered parents, along with Dolby Jenks, World’s Number One Champion Detective. < Less

Lechery, debauchery, total annihilation, blood and mud—the usual stuff as two prime movers contend for power. Not power to... More > do anything in particular—threaten, coerce, destroy: illuminate a city, tighten the skeins of a siege engine, or wind up the bowels of a child’s clockwork toy—just power to have around. Just in case. Just the familiar, reassuring bulge of potential, there to quiet unease was not much to ask. But who to ask?
—The Return of the Orange Virgin from Platterland < Less

Lechery, debauchery, total annihilation, blood and mud—the usual stuff as two prime movers contend for power. Not power to... More > do anything in particular—threaten, coerce, destroy: illuminate a city, tighten the skeins of a siege engine, or wind up the bowels of a child’s clockwork toy—just power to have around. Just in case. Just the familiar, reassuring bulge of potential, there to quiet unease was not much to ask. But who to ask?
—The Return of the Orange Virgin from Platterland < Less

An eight-year-old Brownie Scout marshals her troop, the Browntown Ocelots, to save the world, Santa Claus, and Christmas as... More > we know it, assisted by Walt and Madge, her bewildered parents, along with Dolby Jenks, World’s Number One Champion Detective. < Less

Forays into the Fantastic: Sci-Fi and Fantasy, Slipstream and Magical Realism. Previously published stories by the author.... More > You are invited to browse the complete compendium of lovers, losers, and part-time demons. I'm glad to have you as a reader. Enjoy. < Less