[Neverending Story, by gadi, 2009]

Some articles I recently wrote for suite101.com:
Reading to Your Kids, Part I
The Right Books to Read to the Right Children
TV, Children & the Responsibility of Education
Enjoy!

[Handsome Dan, the original Yale Bulldog]

I was fortunate enough to be offered the chance to write an ongoing article as the Yale Bulldogs correspondent for Examiner.com. Check out the link below. If you like the writing consider subscribing. I get paid by the hit and subscription so, by all means, be generous [...]

[Dunham Massey, by Christopher Furlong, 2009]

There was a bug. A lady bug. She was the promise of life. She came in the time of flowers and first figs. She brought with her the dream of smiles and ruffled hair and laughter.
In the winter she was not to be found.
There was a [...]

[Reaching for Heaven Genesis 11, by Ruth Palmer, 2009]

He tried.
Not once or twice. Not in passing, nor just for the show of the thing. He tried with the quiet, unflinching confidence of internal necessity: with certain fingers reaching after a thing that they must, at any cost, acquire. He tried [...]

[Rust on White, by Bruce Gunion, 2009]

A splash of rust freckled her long waves of hair. Or maybe that was just the sun winking down at him, reminding of the deep red curls she once wore. Her talc white skin was not smooth, as it had been. Time had blanched her features [...]

[Digital Prometheus, by Scott Eaton, 2006]

They wanted a super-soldier. A thing of muscle and testosterone and unchecked aggression. They stirred him together in a deoxyribose cocktail: Frankenstein’s Prometheus unbound, one nucleus at a time, in a blender.
“Here’s Patton’s pinky toe”, one said. “Don’t forget Sun-Tzu’s wisdom tooth”, said another. [...]

[Gothic Romance and Greek, by RP Gesus, 2009]

My Dearest Love,
May this letter find you happy, healthy and, most importantly, safe. You must have a thousand worthy questions in the wake of my abrupt departure yesterday evening. First, let me say that you should not be concerned for me. I am all right. [...]

Now available for order, for those of you so inclined:
Midtown Comics
Otherwise, if you happen to be in the New York area this weekend, swing by and pick up a copy at the New York convention:

2009 New York Comicon

ARDDEN ENTERTAINMENT CONJURES UP MERLIN
FOR THE 2009 NEW YORK COMIC-CON
Ardden Entertainment is proud to announce that comic book industry legend J.M. DeMatteis and writer Derek Ivan Webster are teaming with artist Loren Meyer for THE MERLIN PROPHECIES, a genre-defying modern-day reinvention of the Camelot mythos.
THE MERLIN PROPHECIES is the story of John Myrddin, an emotionally-disturbed [...]