Here’s a new story I wrote in the growing collection of short-short stories I call The Lazy Allen Stories. I hope you enjoy it. This is a work of fiction; I made it up. Comments are appreciated as always (I have thick skin). My Dog’s… Read More
Here’s another short-short story I wrote. Like Star Beauty it’s part of a group of stories I’m working on I call the Lazy Allen Stories. I don’t really know what to do with these stories, so for now I’m simply going to try to write… Read More
For a long time, ok for years, I’ve been messing about with a novel. It was going to be called No Beer in Heaven. I had a lot of parts to it, in my mind a lot of pretty good parts, but it wasn’t coming… Read More
Our neighbours M & D left a care package in the mailbox – a pair of novels. I started into the first one the other day – Gil Adamson’s first novel, The Outlander. It turns out this is a page-turner, and it pulled me right… Read More
I’ve been messing about with a bit of fiction for some time, since approximately the dawn of the last ice age. One day I hope to finish it. The story is set in 1982 in Toronto. The narrator is Lazarus Allen, but we just call… Read More
I don’t recall how I found out about Stranglehold by Robert Rotenberg. Maybe I heard an interview with the author or read a review. I do know that whatever it was caused me to write down “Read Stranglehold Robert Rotenberg Toronto mystery” in my trusty… Read More
Having just finished By Blood by Ellen Ullman, I’m about to start Canada by Richard Ford. I don’t know much about it except that it is about the life of a teen-aged boy whose parents rob a bank, and that it was published last year… Read More
Some time ago when I started reading the Wallander novels by Henning Mankell, I hadn’t realized there was a popular fiction genre known as Nordic Noir, featuring a host of messed up detectives. I haven’t read The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson… Read More
I finished reading this book last night and posted the following review this morning on goodreads. The Accident is one of those plot-driven mystery-thriller type books, a variation on the whodunnit. I should make a note on ratings here as I’m fairly new to goodreads.… Read More
Here’s a little excerpt from something I’ve been writing. Let’s call it a retirement project because by the time I’m finished it I’ll be retired, that’s how slow it’s going. I guess eventually it’s going to be a novel. I’ve learned that I write fiction… Read More
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