JUSTIFYING MURDER by James Lincoln Warren Mass murderers always seem to justify their heinous and insane acts by claiming that they are performed for the greater good. Adolf Hitler believed he was saving civilization from the Jews. Timothy McVeigh famously wore a tee-shirt emblazoned with a quote from Thomas Jefferson: “The tree of liberty must […]
Deputy Kenneth Moon Inmate Douglas Burden NEWS POT-POURRI by Leigh Lundin Moon Over Tampa Living in Florida provides a rich source of material for writers, though not the kind of anecdotes you want to brag about. This week in Tampa, that changed with a story out of the Hillsborough County Jail. The heroes happen to […]
SMILE WHEN YOU SAY THAT by John M. Floyd NOTE: Not that it matters, but what follows is true. One Saturday years ago, I walked outside to check the mail and saw my then-neighbor, a retired college president named Harbour, raking leaves in his front yard. Normally he looked like the distinguished and educated man […]
GOING GOTH by Steve Steinbock Last week, with Halloween looming like a harvest moon, I threatened to go “Goth.” Now, with the Hunter’s Moon just starting to wane, I’m back and I’m keeping my promise. Don’t expect dark makeup, leather, or spikes. When I go Goth I do it for real. Two years back, James […]
10 MYTHS ABOUT A WRITER’S LIFE by Deborah Elliott-Upton 1. It must be exciting to be a writer. Sometimes it is. I love getting an idea, jotting it down on a piece of paper and thinking about it until I can get to my computer. I love the excitement of my fingers not being able […]
NEWS CLIPPING by Rob Lopresti Yesterday, for the second time, we featured a chapter of The Man In Court by Frederic DeWitt Wells. Just for kicks and giggles I decided to see if I could find out any more about the man. I found one story that tells us a bit about life in the […]
Back in August we included a chapter from The Man In Court by Frederic DeWitt Wells (which I shamefully described as A Man In Court … Bad Librarian!) Wells was a New York City magistrate in the early years of the century. Most of the book is not too interesting today because it is more […]