Mercury Loves Lara

The kind editors of Red Fez online literary journal have just published a tale, "Mercury Loves Lara," from my novel-in-frames in-progress The Three Living Meet the Three Dead. Check it out by clicking on this text. Enjoy!

"The Cadaver Synod"

I have a  short story in the latest issue of The Prodigal's Chair. It's called "The Cadaver Synod" and is a historical fiction regarding the infamous trial of the corpse of Pope Formosus in 897--perfect for your Easter celebrations! The story is one from my novel-in-frames-in-progress The Three Living Meet the Three Dead.

Click on these words to read it. Feel free to comment. Enjoy!

After the Law

I do not see you, for I am not allowed to look at your differentiated, individual faces. Looking you in the eye is not necessary to my address and would be superfluous to my sense of decorum. By speaking, which is all that I ever do, I am making the rules. Therefore I am blindly addressing an audience of phantoms, an imaginary, undelimited mass denying the presence of any rarefied individual. In this, however, you escape me and flee; you get into trouble and you refuse to conform to my preemptive norms. For better or for worse. You escape your destiny and my mediation of your place in the crowd.