In Sequence

Kitty Litter In Sequence

Excerpt From My Novel, "The Famous Well-Equipped Twins"

Chapter One

They were standing in front of the old boarded-up church on Bristol Street.

     “Gimme a light,” said Kitty, leaning toward Isley, cigarette trembling in the corner of her mouth. Isley snapped a flame from his big silver lighter after three false starts and held it to the tip of her cigarette. His hand was numb and shaking from the cold.

     It was one of those bleak November Sundays when everything is dead and the sky is full of sleet and you’re just waiting for the full weight of winter to come down.

     “Thanks,” said Kitty.

     Peachfuzz was vomiting warm champagne on the granite steps; it hit the stone with a slap, and steam wandered up toward the

streetlight.

     “You okay, Peach?” Kitty asked, drawing on her cigarette.

     Peachfuzz wiped her lips with the back of her glove. 

The Membranous Lounge (Apophenia Edition)

The second edition of The Membranous Lounge is out. Smoother than sandpaper and cleaner than clones!

I like chimps.

You can buy the book here. Please help send my cat to college. 
Here's a bit of nonsense...

It was the first time I’d ever heard of a woman getting arrested for being a peeping Tom.

     “Who were you spying on?” I asked her.

     “This guy next door. I wasn’t trying to see him naked or anything. It wasn’t dirty voyeurism.”

     “Then why were you doing it?”

     “I just wanted to see if he had any secrets.”

     “Did he?”

     “Not that I could see.”
THE END 

Next Book

Another collection of short stories is in the works, tentative title: Bleak Holiday. Also, a new edition of the Membranous Lounge will be published by Apophenia.

And now, a picture of Vic Tayback:

                                   "Stow it, Alice!"

When I was a kid my friend told me he had two hundred comic books. I went over to his house to check it out. They were all the same issue of Jughead.

Conservatory of Death

A morbid pulp novel:

Conservatory of Death

                                                   No, I don't know who that woman is.

Found an old Paas Easter egg coloring kit while cleaning out my kitchen cupboards. I figured, what the hell and spent the day coloring a dozen eggs. It was a lot of work and now I have to make egg salad or something.