The August 2022 issue of Down in the Dirt has arrived, and in it you can find my poem “The Rough, Violet Stone.” (Thanks, as always, to Editor Janet Kuypers for selecting my work for this outstanding literary magazine.) The magazine’s theme this month is “My Name Is Equality.”
You can purchase a copy of the issue at Amazon right here, or you can read it online here at the Scars Publications website.
You want to know how old I am? I can remember when Blockbuster Video was The Next Big Thing. It was a monolithic blue titan of a company that was gobbling up mom-and-pop video stores in whatever town it landed in. Think of Goya’s “Saturn Devouring His Son.”
Yes … I realize that the meme below is now a bit dated, as today Netflix is infamously suffering its own problems. It’s still funny, though.
Oil on canvas.
Her family recently announced that she passed away at the age of 89.
“Haunted Midnight.” Etching.
Weird things you learn as a writer — the expression “sweeten the kitty” was at one time a synonym for “award.”
We absolutely need to bring that back into common usage.
Update — I have been reliably informed that this is actually Russian sage, and not lavender. My bad.
Episode 3: “The Witness.”
Eric Robert Nolan, Author 