AWOL Again!

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I'm off for the next 6 weeks, collecting more photos and stories for the travel/adventure side of this blog! Please don't forget about me while I'm gone, okay? To help be sure you won't, I'll be posting a photo or two at random times and a few hints about what I'm up to. If you comment, I'll do my best to get around to read it and visit you, but can't make any promises. I'm not going off the grid the way I did in Nepal last fall, but travel is time-consuming and exhausting.

Meanwhile, enjoy reading old flash fiction here on the blog, or purchase one of my collections of stories:


Libraries: where all the words live. In this collection of tales about books and libraries, we meet dragons and wizards who run some unusual libraries, and bibliophiles who are willing to go to great extremes to visit them. And perhaps some cautionary tales about what can happen when we love books not wisely, but too well.

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Seven delightful, heartwarming, or spooky stories of the midwinter holidays, collected here for the first time. 

 

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Collected here are ten stories no longer available anywhere else, set in drinking establishments ranging the known universe and beyond. Fantasy, science fiction, Weird West, and more, these short stories prove you never know what may happen when people—loosely defined—need a drink. Sit back, enjoy the read, and keep your glass within arm’s reach.

 

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