My short stories are non-fictional accounts of people and incidents taken from my life. I try to connect the smaller details of our lives to more universal themes and patterns in society at large.
On Death and Dying
Essays meditating on passing.
- After Arthur: On the Grief of Cats and Humans
- Charlie Brown Down
- Green Grass and Rainbows: The Murder of Doreen Gaul, November 1969
- Lone Wolves and Lost Boys
- Possum Fall
- Suicide of the Superhero: The Loss of a Hero
- The Dying of Jon Spiller
Tales Told Out of School
Essays written from my perspective as both a student and a teacher.
- A Liberal in the Land of Canaan
- Blond Jesus: The Holy Hitchhiker
- Jesus Drives Stick
- Integrity is a Four-Letter Word
- Marcelle Hall, Saint Rose, the Ebels, and the Long Goodbye
- Never Tell Your Teacher He Is Going to Hell
- Participation Grade
- The Underestimation Destination
- Year of the Dog
- Why I Am a Teacher
The Norwood Avenue Chronicles
Articles, essays, and poems chronicling events and people in my life growing up in my childhood home.
- Introduction: The Norwood Avenue Chronicles
- A Star Wars Story
- Audio Documentary: News from the Front: Memories of a World War II Refugee
- Duck and Cover and DIE!: Rehearsing for the Nuclear Holocaust
- Family Affairs and Pieces of Our Childhood
- Green Grass and Rainbows: The Murder of Doreen Gaul, November 1969
- Gus Lascaris — The Garrulous Greek Guru of Norwood Avenue
- I Now Know Why Salmon Swim Upstream
- In Absentia
- Lessons from the Front
- Lost, Then Found
- My First Poem: Winter 1978 (poem)
- My Last Fourth of July
- Starry, Starry Night: Stratton Mountain Scout Reservation, August 1978
- Summer Siren (poem)
- The Curious Case of Rev. C. Christopher Peck, 43
- The CBS Radio Mystery Theater
- The Ghosts of Christmas Past
- The Last Conversation
- The Last Days of the Metro Diner
- The Past is Only Ever a Lifetime Away: Thoughts on the Assassination of Austrian Archduke Ferdinand
- Yankee Stadium Doesn’t Exist Anymore
The Prison Chronicles
Articles, essays, and poems based on my experience as a former administrator and teacher in prison education programs.
- Introduction: The Prison Chronicles
- Arthur John Shawcross: The Monster on Alexander Street
- Inmate Art
- Justice and Robert Vick
- No Way Jose
- Ode to an Inmate (poem)
- The Criminal Underclass and Inmate Higher Education
- True-Life Prison Stories
- Turning Towards Mecca at the County Jail (poem)
- Way to Go Slugger
Other Stories and Ephemera
- Abbott and Costello Discuss the World Health Organization
- Abbott and Costello Discuss Zen
- Why They Don’t Tell Jokes in an Italian Household
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