Borrowed Blood, or Why Some Short Stories Just Don’t Know When To Quit.

The short story “Borrowed Blood” was supposed to stop with The End, but it didn’t–it went on to turn into the novel The Understudy. Here’s how it all began….      He walked on her right side, next to the curb, the wet asphalt glimmering with light from shops trying to catch some pre-theater traffic. The […]

The cold, hard light of romanticism.

What deluded miserable creature doesn’t want to feed the hungry, heal the sick, and thwart the unjust? It’s not only fair and right and good, it’s even cheaper that way. That’s just cold, hard reality. So we have a world full of serious, sober-minded men and women doing their best to make this all happen. […]