…gaze long into an abyss the abyss gazes also into thee. — Friedrich Nietzsche Beyond Good and Evil (1886) In the older declining Midwestern community of Littlefall an apartment building performs the same end function as a hospice... Read More

The music arrived with images and therein laid its appeal…it was polished and primitive; it was lush and sensuous and eminently danceable. Here was an iconic bandleader and renowned percussionist like no other. who alternately thrived... Read More

In early 1984 Georgia resident Darlene Wofford’s comfortable middle-class life was ripped apart. In January her 10-year-old son drowned in the family swimming pool. Shortly afterwards she was abducted viciously beaten and raped by two... Read More

In a ststorm of barbed humor and bawdy acronyms the "Folks Upset by the Capital Karma" shish-kabob the entire U.S. Congress and propose a political platform just wide enough to stand on one-footed. The authors want an end to federal debt... Read More

*The revolutionary purpose of the Kingdom of God and its millennial plan is to reduce all nations and creeds to one political and religious standard… —*Parley P. Pratt (Great Great Grandfather of Governor Mitt Romney) Mountain... Read More

Perhaps it’s because their names seem similar but Claudia Acte the fetching character at the core of Dolores A. McCabe’s "Axios" recalls Cleopatra the ancient world’s preeminent vamp. Nero’s onetime mistress may be a mere... Read More

Having penned her memoirs the title character in the film Auntie Mame is aghast over the rewrites her muse has made. “On a bleak January morning” she reads aloud “I came forth like an echo from the hills of Cochemara whilst Diedre... Read More

The King James Holy Bible Johann Wolfgang Goethe’s Faust Dante’s Divine Comedy John Milton’s Paradise Lost Mark Twains’ Letters of The Earth and Stephen Vincent Benet’s The Devil and Daniel Webster are a small sample of the... Read More