The theme for this song list is of a speculative and imaginal Weimar, a collage, if you will, combining a variety of disparate elements, amongst which are the following:

the true and historical Weimar of the Berlin Dada Club, the Munich Soviet, the Wilhelmshaven mutiny, the Spartacist Revolt, the Kapp Putsch, and the street battles between the ( Read more... )

I've now almost completely rewritten this piece. I still have a long ways to go, but I am darn happy with the way things stand right now. More changes are coming tomorrow, as the back story between Frank and Hrothghar becomes clearer to me. My thanks to everyone who has expressed interest and curiosity.

I keep experiencing these "flashes" of ( Read more... )

( Further adventures in the new novel... this all came to me in about 20 minutes... not sure where it's going, either... )

My good friend Frank, winstonjc, asked a question in regard to these novel fragments I've been posting, specifically, the character list I posted a couple weeks back, to wit, "What's it about?" It's a fair question, and this is the answer (though edited, altered, and expanded for posting here) I gave him:

Seriously, it is a really complex question, ( Read more... )

( A short story entitled Slow Burn, featuring Frank McGuire )

( Yet another fragment from the new novel... )

( Fragments from the novel I'm working on... )