Detail from “Sextus Pompeius Consulting Erichtho before the Battle of Pharsalia,” John Hamilton Mortimer

Source: Quote Library on Facebook

Cover for Mazzy Star’s “Halah” single, 1995

Capitol Records.  “Halah” first appeared on Mazzy Star’s 1990 album, She Hangs Brightly.

Rest easy, Robert Redford.

Photo credit: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/robert-redford-dies-age-89-star-director/

Birds circling in unison over Market Square, Roanoke, Virginia

September 2025 — last night’s dusk.

These cell phone videos don’t really do the scene justice.  They looked soooo cool soaring and circling as a flock.  If you listen closely during the videos, you can hear them chirping.

Cover to “Blanco y Negro,” Ángel Díaz Huertas, August 22, 1920

Editorial Catolica.

The Piker Press publishes my horror tale, “The Devil and Amanda Ogilvie”

What happens when a jaded publishing heiress comes face to face with Satan himself?

You can witness the confrontation in “The Devil and Amanda Ogilvie,” published today on the front page of The Piker Press:

“The Devil and Amanda Ogilvie”

Thanks yet again to Managing Editor Sand Pilarski for allowing me to be a part of this rewarding creative community.  🙂



The Argyle Literary Magazine publishes four of my poems.

I am absolutely honored today to see The Argyle Literary Magazine publish four of my poems: “Quiet White Dog Short Poem,” “My Mother’s Apartment,” “March Midnight Window” and “Sullen Robin Haiku.”  You can find them at the link below:

Four Poems by Eric Robert Nolan

The Argyle is a superb eclectic online quarterly that strives for “an immersive experience of words and images that feeds the mind, stirs the soul, and disturbs the quiet of blank spaces.”  I am grateful to Founder & Editor-in-Chief David Estringel, MFA for allowing me to join in its literary tradition.



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