Paperwork, everywhere, all the time… ey Harris, was it still worth it?” That’s Fat Henry in the next cell, hollering at me as I take my last walk with Warden Jones and the preacher. Henry gets his in June so he’s probably thinking about the same stuff that I am. “Yeah, Henry,” I say, “I […]

The Ghost and Nellie Bee The Ghost and Nellie Bee was written for an NPR radio contest. They gave you the first and last line and you had 600 words to tell the tale. It did not even place. I still like it…   ome people swore that the house was haunted. For over two […]

I had been reading Avram Davidson’s 1983 anthology “Magic for Sale” and decided that I would like to make a “contribution”… at least to the genre. The Answer Shop came drifting up out of the dark… hat with the upheavals at home and work, Carl was tired and more than a little distracted. Paul Johnson, […]