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There’s No Such Thing
Chapter 1 She sat in the window seat of the Allegiant direct flight from Springfield, Missouri to Tampa, Florida. Cruising at 42,000 feet above the ...
They Do Come Back
Twenty-five years ago, I became the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois. Brash, arrogant, cocky and brilliant, I could do no wrong ...
A Matter of Conscious
PART ONE During the second half of the twentieth century, an observation, some called Moore’s Law, spurred the computer industry to double the number of ...
Red Rabbits
Part dream, part high, it was 4:30 A.M., again, that meant I’d been away from Jack Daniels and an iffy consciousness for a couple of ...
The Dreamers and the Storms
Mia and I escape across the plains, and behind us, the sons of the storm god follow on. We are lifetime residents of the North ...
The Wood Man
I know he is there—the man who lives in the forest. I am yet to see him directly, but I feel his presence nonetheless. He ...
Crocodile House
The Crocodile House stands alone in the scrubland; old, abandoned and overgrown. And I use the term ‘stands’ in the loosest possible sense. It must ...
How My Mother Lost Face During the Homeless Crisis (And How I Kept From Losing Mine)
There was always a pretty big homeless problem where I grew up. You’d see them with signs near off-ramps to the highway that asked for ...
The Voices Know
I’ve seen a lot of things these last few years working security for the Twin Valley Behavioral Center. For all its fancy wording, it is ...
Laser Lightshow of the Gods
When I was young, I spent a few years volunteering for a local natural science museum. I worked my way up from general volunteer to ...
Planted Seed in an Empty Nest
It was my wife Marion and I’s first Halloween season without our son, David. He passed away unexpectedly at the beginning of February. We had ...
