Love (or a Brief Dopamine Hit) for Sale, Summer of 2024

It's been years since I bothered updating this site. It was mentioned recently as part of my online "presence", and I therefore scratch this message, Arne Saknussemm-style. These items are on sale, available for picnics, lodge meetings, children's parties, bat mitzvahs, and smokers.

A short excerpt from POLL PIRATE, or, THE CONFESSIONS OF POLL FLANDERS: A (Mostly) True History of Piracy Being an Account of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates, as told by One Poll Flanders, Who Sailed with Lawless Men, Buccaneers, Freebooters, Privateers, and Cutpurses, and Lived to One Hundred and Twenty Years of Age. Along with Digressions on Scurvy, the Pox, Loose Tongues, and the Horrors of a Lee Shore. For Such Moral Uplift as May Save Young Persons from a Sorry End, and Much Good May It Do Them. appears in THE BLACK BEACON BOOK OF PIRATE TALES, available from Amazon or your local bookseller. The full version of Poll's long life is a work in progress.

A much more tragic short story, BUDDY BOLDEN'S LAST STAND, appears in UNCOMMON MINDS: A COLLECTION OF AIs, DREAMWALKERS, AND OTHER PSYCHIC MYSTERIES. A minister visits Charles "Buddy" Bolden, the trumpeter who may have invented jazz music before his psychotic break in 1906. Brother Bolden's "last concert" in the asylum spins into a Dionysian frenzy until it collapses under the weight of his attempt to express more than can be heard.

If you are a community theater maven or school teacher, your dewy-eyed charges hunger for the cultural literacy available in TROJAN WAR CONFIDENTIAL. Ripped from the headlines of 1180 BC, TROJAN WAR CONFIDENTIAL tells all, from the Judgement of Paris to the fall of Troy. This play for students showcases a contest between three goddesses, the many mommy issues of Achilles, and a Trojan Horse that argues with itself. Available for theatrical production from Brooklyn Publishers, or for classroom use at Teachers Pay Teachers. More roleplay scripts for classroom use are at Teachers Pay Teachers, From the life of Eleanor of Aquitaine to the Greek and Persian Wars. A free preview-- the (much more accurate) story of the Spartans at Thermopylae-- is here for your dining pleasure.