So I scored some great thighs at the farmers’ market…. Wait. Let me rephrase. I bought some small-farm-raised chickens’ thighs at the farmers’ market, and I braised them in butter and then simmered them in a sauce of cream of mushroom soup, sliced portobello mushrooms,…

Comes now Jack Wallen, spooky fiction author extraordinaire, to present you with a smorgasbord of writers providing a Halloween (or similar) flash fiction story for every day in October! I’ll have one in there somewhere. When I get the URL for my story, I’ll post…

First, happy birthday to me! Seventy-one, that’s how. This box and its contents were gathered during the early seventies, when I was in college. I still use these sometimes, although I don’t correspond by paper mail very often. In case you don’t know, those colorful…