ADVENTURES OF A TRAVELING BANDERSNATCH – THE FINAL CHAPTER Apologies to all those who slogged through my typos from last week. After my column was posted, I noticed that one of the subheadings was “Blogging with from the Uninformed Highway.” (The phrase “with from” may be in someone’s grammar, somewhere, but I assure you, it’s […]

DRIVE by Deborah Elliott-Upton My dad has been racing since he was 17 years old. He is now 74 and the oldest driver at the dirt track in my home town. A news reporter asked when he would quit and he said, “Probably when I’m dead.” I understand that drive (pun intended.) I started attending […]

THE EDGE OF NIGHT When I was a wee laddie I would come home after school most days, grab a snack (usually a slice or two of bread guaranteed to build my strong body twelve ways), and mosey over to my grandmother’s room. She was well into her eighties and arthritis had landed her in […]

THOUGHTS ON WRITING & SPENDING A WEEKEND WITH ME by Melodie Johnson Howe Daffy Duck once lisped, while being chased, run over, flattened, and resurrected, “This doesn’t make sense and neither do I.” Flannery O’Conner said, “…there’s a certain grain of stupidity that the writer of fiction can hardly do without, and this is the […]

COVERING THE STORY (Conclusion) by James Lincoln Warren So I’d written a story about a cop reacting to a crime against children for a target market. My two writing buddies, Paul and Deborah had written very similar stories. I was worried that all three stories were too much alike. My friends offered me some criticism, […]

INSULTS and INJURY by Leigh Lundin In my recent columns, I have been exploring and playing with words. A reader sent me an eMail called When Insults Had Class. I don’t know that the sender intended me to build an article from it, but hey, anything’s fair game. When I was a little kid, our […]

Ye who read Criminal Brief, please welcome Angela Zeman as our new regular Saturday correspondent. I could wax long on her many virtues, but shall instead refer you to her CrimeSpace profile, as well as her website, which should amply satisfy the curious. I speak for the entire Criminal Brief crew in pronouncing our delight […]