My satire of a new hire’s terrible first day was published by Eclectica! Check it out: http://www.eclectica.org/v23n1/humor_list.html

Exciting news: my short story “The Fraudulent Corpse” has been selected for publication at Morpheus Tales. If you like dark fiction like me, do yourself a favor and head over to their website: http://morpheustales.wixsite.com/morpheustales My story will be published in issue #32

My family and I made it through the Hurricane Irma safe and sound and with four days of cleanup. Here’s a chronicle of our experience the night Irma changed course and came right at us. I wrote this during the evening, having little to do but play cards and fuck with my notepad while we waited for the […]

I asked my young sons to clean up the room. Came back through and got myself a bit of fright when I turned and saw this. Needless to say, I pushed the lid of the chest down.    

Need a fun pick-me-up? Here’s a great performance by Mumford and Sons, The Old Crow Medicine Show and Edward Sharp and the Magnetic Zeroes of the gospel song “This Train”, first recorded in 1922. “This Train Is Bound For Glory”- Mumford and Sons, Edward Sharpe – The Old Crow Medicine Show

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A talented group of young writers and poets at a high school in Wellington, FL write to and have performed slam poetry along with instrumental hip-hop. A fan of this genre myself (see my post about Blue Sky Black Death’s Noir), I listened to some of their suggestions and it has inspired me to do a […]

I am looking forward to my plans for 2017, and being more active with Music to Write to is one of them. Thanks to all of you who visit the site. It’s why I do it. Happy New Year! -Steve

I’ve been absent! It’s for a good reason, though: since my first son was born, I have been making a book of memories and pictures for him which I give as a Christmas gift. The first book was for his first two years, the second book when he was two, and his third when he […]

This is pretty wild: the year the Chicago Cubs last won the World Series, Gustav Mahler had been the conductor for the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. Woah. To read more about his debut in January of 1908, read here.