Mind Control: A Brief History
A few years ago, I dated a man who had been wrongfully imprisoned in a secret U.S. detention camp in Iraq. He’d been accused of terrorism by a co-worker, and then held and tortured for months by U.S. government employees,…
I bet deathbed research is skewed
I haunt Twitter in my spare time these days like the ghost of procrastinating writers, and something I’ve noticed that pops up every few days or so is a tweet about people on their deathbeds. I bet deathbed research is…
Where’d your books go, JR Pomerantz?
Good morning, friends! I’m only on my first cup of coffee and it just snowed a little here, and I thought about you, and me, and how I think you always know what’s going on with me because I consider…
The 7 Patents of Hendricus G. Loos
My original blog about Hendricus G. Loos waxed wider on the man than the inventions.* Since then, there’s a little more info available online. Like most Q&A on the Internet, none of this has been verified or researched and everything…
Love in the Time of the Improvised Explosive Device
A government stooge finds himself at the center of some Afghanistan-based intrigue in Love in the Time of the Improvised Explosive Device. Up until a year ago, Jim Schneider had a wife and two small children. Now they are dead…
Corporate Torsos Need Not Apply
Corporate Torsos Need Not Apply imagines a future world in which the mid-Atlantic states of America—namely, “Nu” York and “Nu” Jersey—survive in soggy, paradigm-shifted fashion after a calamitous “Flood” some 18 years ago (or was it 19?). No one can…
