Category Archives: Fiction

American Friend – 1976 – Wim Wenders

February 5, 2025 – 11:15 am

Last night I watched Wim Wenders AMERICAN FRIEND 1976. I hadn’t seen it in almost a half- century. Six years later as a semi -fugitive from New York I ended up there working at. nightclub BSIRs. Back then the DJ Henri Flesh and I roamed the city looking for the film’s locations. I’m presently rewriting […]

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Excerpt From BACK AND FORTH

February 5, 2025 – 11:12 am

The afternoon sun hovered over the distant mountains and Sean checked the Inferno Bar’s clock. The hands were stuck on 10:24 and the bartender said, “It’s been broke for years. The regulars like that time. Mid-morning or three hours till closing.” Sean held out his hand to the gap between the sun and the shining […]

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ALMOST A DEAD MAN – CHAPTER 3 – 1982

January 17, 2025 – 9:54 am

THREE The summer solstice sun was falling through the trees. The nature-park north of Hamburg was dead still. The approaching evening heightened the darkness within the corridor of tall pines. A rutted dirt road led deep into the new forest. No sign on the rusting wrought-iron gate said to where. A crumbling stone wall surrounded […]

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ALMOST A DEAD MAN – CHAPTER 2

January 16, 2025 – 11:06 am

Howling sirens drove the panicked East Villagers into the Astor Place Subway. Most failed to pierce the scrum at the head of the stairs to the station and they raised their eyes to the speck falling to Earth. A white flash vaporized New York into the ionosphere. “DOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNAAAAAAA.” The subhuman scream ping-ponged up the canyon […]

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Almost A Dead Man – Chapter 1

January 14, 2025 – 1:07 pm

ONE The damp scurry of claws across the floor startled the woman on the battered chair and she lifted her black stiletto heels in horror. Rats were the least of her problems. Over the phone her lover had suggested a nocturnal rendezvous in Hamburg’s harbor district. The woman had expected rough sex. Instead two men […]

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