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A view of war
“I know why you wanted me to come tonight. Thanks. But remember, I’m an old Naval Aviator with a swollen prostate … and just like this pee, change will not come quickly.”
Collected Works in Contemporary Art and Literature
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TBR Autumn 2026: REMEMBER
For me, the question is: what is in the sky above the fig leaves? Is the man still beneath the fig tree? I wanna return to that photograph, look up…
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Make beleive
Three poems trace addiction, exile, loneliness, and memory through surreal images where writing becomes a ritual of survival.
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The Non-Centrality of the Character
An essay on why vivid prose centers action rather than characters, showing how pronouns can conceal weak sentences and stall narrative momentum.
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So Much Water, So Far From Home
While on a seaside holiday in Portugal with her two children, a woman navigates the death of her aunt back home, as sunbathing, café squabbles, and funeral arrangements blur into…
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A lawn picnic
An exile reflects on aging neighbors, a distant mother, illness, and the quiet erosion of time in a neglected townhouse complex.
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Entrance and Exits: TBR Blanc 2026
Entrance and Exits gathers thirty-one global stories about thresholds, choices, departures, and what we become in transit.
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Machines Don’t Whimper
A poet’s funeral becomes a public reckoning with AI, art, pain, and the human need to create meaning before machines consume it.
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In Another Life
“Some loves we live, and some we carry – gentle ghosts that whisper of roads not taken, teaching us that even an unlived love can fill a life with meaning.”