That’s the title of the last of the “Dirty Harry” movies with Clint Eastwood. The Dead Pool has a cast of “not-yet-famous” actors, the characters played by Liam Neeson, Patricia Clarkson and Jim Carrey. That kind of movie was my favorite brand for many years. After a week of pressure in my business and…

My second revision of my short story compilation entitled A Codex of Malevolence is complete! And the feat is significant because it marks the revision in which I've wholly converted all my stories into a mainstream,…

Va-va-va-voom! Let’s talk ta-tas!

Gotta be careful with this one. If I do anything wrong, or don’t do something as I should, I may take a lot of heat for this post. Heck, even bad luck could nail me, but you know me by now, I’d guess. Just ’cause the bullets are flying out there, it doesn’t mean I sound…

Concerning writing, I admit I've gotten a late start. I don't have the education or the natural-born talent. All I've got are stories and a mentally unhealthy compulsion to tell them. Equally obsessed, I've worked hard to clean-up the spills I've made. The start of Summer 2012, I dedicated myself to producing professional-level stories told in a mainstream Active Voice. And I'm nearly done with every scrap I've written to date. I'm not lying, check out my revised work…

… a tooth for a tooth.

End result? A bunch of bare gummed blind people.

Ever hear the expression, “What goes around comes around?” You probably have, but may not have acted on it yet. Or, perhaps you did act on it, but in the wrong way. There was a Guy a long time ago Whom I call JC. He advocated the…

After some urging, I reprint this essay submitted to "The Grio's" Writing Challenge.

That group, cancer survivors, now includes me … as I understand it. Apparently I can keep the “title” unless-until I become a dead guy. The newspaper article you’ll see by clicking the link lists some of the…

In a disappointing visit to an ophthalmologist today, I waited over 30 minutes to be called in. My GP, Mike MacMurray, told me the eye doc would zap me with a laser and bring my bad vision back to what it was before. Not so, I was to learn. I wasted an hour plus to get an exam and have my eyes dilated so I can’t see worth a crap until the drops wear off.…

From “STILL DREAMING”

There are times, in all our lives, when the optimist within us fails to lift and empower. We become calendar-driven; subjected to the doubts of others, as if our own were not enough. We ask ourselves: “Am I…

… tie a knot and make a swing.

A familiar topic, yes, but not what most people want to discuss when everything’s already hunky-dory in their world. C’mon, man, who the heck wants to discuss problems when it’s all working just fine?

Actually, no one. Problems, as well as solutions, are welcome…

The badge I wear gets attention. I call that a good thing, since getting attention is why I got it in the first place. This is the badge I wear whenever I leave the house.

I was walking amiably to my car parked in a…

Given my recent breakthrough, or more aptly said, my surrender last month, I've been tearing through my all stories and rewriting them - all of them! All my horror stories are being rewritten with a genuinely Active Voice. I know, you're probably saying "You've said that before," but this time I have. I've stopped trying to force that mood into a reader's head. Don't believe me? Check out…

One question I frequently ask myself is, “Bill, do you ever shut your damned mouth?”

Perhaps I do it from seeing the cartoon balloons above people’s heads when they look at me after I’ve said something particularly non-brilliant. That’s happened many times in my life, although it’s less frequent in recent years. These days, when that happens to me,…

Only now, it makes a difference. I was walking into an aisle at CVS Pharmacy to pick up more dope, as I do a few times every month. Cancer’s no damned fun, and getting old isn’t exactly a burst of glee, either. A woman was almost out of the aisle as I approached, but she saw me coming.

She moved to her right and turned sideways to…

It’s almost common in times of grief to hear someone say, “I know how you feel”. However, when the aggrieved person is positive the other one doesn’t know … can’t even possibly have a bleepin’ clue! … it pisses him-her off. A lot.

One of the more common instances of terrible hurt is losing someone close. For most of us…

A special thanks to Gene and IFOGO for the opportunity to share some words.

A Reflection Of The Past

   My earliest memories take me back to when I was around four years old. I was one of five children in our family. I had two older brothers Patrick and Anthony along with two sisters Anne and Janet. We lived in my Grandfather’s house in Bellville NJ. It was a big old house with long creaky stairs the led up to the bedroom that I…

Shopping Free for Free eBooks, More Added

We are having a Free Christian Book Shopping Spree - and you are invited!  For 2 days only you can fill up your virtual shopping bags with lots of great…

Something I used to do, but I quit. Maybe I never even really got started. At least, if we base it on the two-way street premise, I didn’t.

Lesley Gore, who rocketed to mediocrity in the ’60s, had a few songs, none of them “super” hits for anyone who enjoys real music. She began…

It’s a thing done at Christmas, sometimes on Halloween. I’ve never done either of them, although my oldest son was committed to a mental institution for a few months when he set fire to one on a neighbor’s door around his age twelve. We visited him a couple times per week at the hospital, around 40 miles away.

According to Wikipedia, there are a…

My books have recently been transformed with new revisions - now all told with a strictly Active Voice. Complete, I thought I'd apply the changes to my short stories. They're easier to read then my original Pazuzu stories, but they are sub-par and won't even be considered by professional publications. They're not worth much, even upon eliminating the wretched Passive Voice…