A few years ago, on a lark, I sent a short story of mine to the Writers of the Future contest. I wasn’t new to writing stories — I’d been screwing around with fiction on my own since I was a lad — but I was certainly new at trying …
We aren’t positive that norovirus has entered our household, but all signs, as they say, point to “yes.” Certainly the symptoms match up, and we know that there’s norovirus in the air hereabouts: A local-stationed cruise ship just underwent an extra-super-duper cleaning after its third successive outbreak of the virus. …
Don’t know why I was thinking about Douglas Adams the other day, but I was. And so, on a lark, I looked up one of the best movie trailers of all time on YouTube. For your Saturday happiness, here it is: Brilliant!
My first year here at The Citadel I was made faculty advisor to The Shako, the Literary Magazine of The Citadel. It was a surprising thing for me, but I’ve tried to take advantage of it for the past four years. I like to think that the publication is better …
The Gold Star Journal — the scholarly counterpart to The Shako, publishing the very best academic work of The Citadel’s cadets — once again features an essay from one of my classes. This time, it’s an essay from my Honors Tolkien class, “The Precious and the Pearl,” by Noah Koubenec. …