The tenth anniversary issue of Cirsova Magazine is out with a bumper selection of stories to commemorate the auspicious occasion. A Bottle Of Chambertin is my contribution, the sixth of my stories to appear in Cirsova.
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Surrealist Sensual Whirlpool
#surrealism #doubleentendre
In The Eyes Of The Maelstrom.
My advice is don't look back, they'll suck you in.
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Tangent Online reviews the HFQ issue with my story, Melkart And The Monkey Men. The reviewer, Eric Kimminau, calls the story "compelling..."
I appreciate the encouraging words. Here's a link:
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#swordandsorcery #heroicfantasyquarterly #fantasy
A HUGE chart laying out a raft of bonus rewards for NESS 2026 crowdfund backers that they get whenever an author or artist pay raise stretch goal is unlocked.
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A deer caught in the headlights. All the brains of Bertie Wooster with no Jeeves to keep him in line.
Looks like Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.
True believers, seek relief for your thirst for adventure with another Melkart tale! This time in the Heroic Fantasy Quarterly, one of the longest running sword and sorcery mags, in Melkart And The Monkey Men.
#fantasy #swordandsorcery #swordandsandal
www.heroicfantasyquarterly.com?p=4579
I drew this picture of Ta Koro the Akan war god to plug my latest Melkart novel, Melkart In The Kingdom Of Gold, a heavily Afrocentric piece with intrepid Phoenician voyagers traveling to what's now called the Bight of Benin in search of reddish gold.
#swordandsorcery #melkartthemighty #fantasy
PreColumbian Paranoid Predator: He's got a nasty sting, but has to back into his victim. That makes him jumpy and even more mean. Keep a sharp eye out for him if you're ever down Mexico way.
#scorpion #aztec #precolumbian
Dainty dino dining redux. An old drawing found among my stuff after we moved that I'm recycling in hopes of getting a second laugh from those who dig reptilian humor.
#dinosaur #humansasprey #eatenraw
Tre Piatti Alla Cucina Italiana: From bottom to top, Caprese salad (featuring mozzarella made by me con mi due mani), pizza (also made from scratch, natch), and pasta in alfredo sauce with crabmeat. Tutto delizioso!
#italiancooking #capresesalad
Melkart And The Witch is in Swords And Sorcery Magazine. Hope Melkart can muster the courage and discipline to resist the supernatural charms of none other than Kirke the supreme sorceress.
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#swordandsorcery #heroicfantasy #swordandsandal
Melkart And The Witch is in Swords And Sorcery Magazine. Hope Melkart can muster the courage and discipline to resist the supernatural charms of none other than Kirke the supreme sorceress.
swordsandsorcerymagazine.com/melkart-and-...
#swordandsorcery #heroicfantasy #swordandsandal
An arty, angled shot of today's cooking endeavors. The white lump represents my first attempt at cheesemaking. An actually acceptable mozzarella. Hopefully, I'll improve as I go along. The other dish is a shrimp pizza. Boy, was it good!
#pizza #homemadecheese #italiancooking
A fictitious coat of arms. The motto loosely translates as: "It hurts me to hurt you." Also known as the bully's lament. My Latin probably stinks, but so does my art so at least I'm consistent.
#coatofarms #latinmotto #battleaxe
Emperor or Archangel? You Decide!
Oh, and also by the way, Season's Greetings!
#grecoroman #emperor #triumph
The seaward facade of the Hotel Nacional on a very nice November day:
#cuba #havana #hotelnacional
The main drag in Vinales, the town with the same name as the valley where it's located. As you can see, life's a bit on the slow side. Note the mountain in the background.
#cuba #vinales #mainstreet
Another Cuba picture: me smoking a cigar on the tobacco farm where it was grown and rolled. It doesn't get much better than that.
#cuba #tobacco #vinales
It's rundown like everything else, but the Hotel Nacional still retains considerable glamor. Look at the blue sky with the even darker sea past the arch; note the lobster on the keystone. Just a fabulous location.
#HotelNacional #Havana #Cuba
This was my first trip to the Vinales Valley, one of the biggest tourist draws in Cuba. As you can see from the photo below, it really is a place of tropical splendor:
#vinales #cuba #tropics
Every Sunday the rumberos in Havana gather and play in the Callejon de Hamel, an alley in Central Havana covered with wild decorations by a brilliant Cuban artist named Salvador. Here's a short video of the fun.
Fegatini Di Pollo Con Papardelle - More Italian food porn. Italian style chicken livers with pancetta and lean beef in a creamy white wine-tomato sauce.
#italiancooking #chickenliverswithpapardelle
My short story, Don't Worry, The Boss Knows All About It, is now available in Our Best War Stories: Prize-winning Poetry & Prose from the Col. Darron L. Wright Memorial Awards, Vol. 2.
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On this dread even, Samhain, when all the creatures that ever lived, animal or human, roam the earth howling with grief over their demise and bent upon revenge on the living, I and the King in Yellow wish you a most glamour-filled Keltick New Year's Eve!
#samhain #thekinginyellow #halloween
Inspired once again by an old nonna on Facebook, I made a cheese and onion pie. This is my first actual pie made with pizza dough. Admittedly not as good as nonna's, but still darn tasty. Italian dishes cooked from scratch are the best.
#italiancooking #cheeseandonionpie #puglia
I review Pissed Jeans' scorching hot set last night at Comet Ping Pong:
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#pissedjeans #hardcore #cometpingpong #subpop
Anthony Flacco and Jen Newens of Martin Literary Management have agreed to represent my Civil War crime novel, Scoundrel!To plug the novel, a cinematic character study has been developed of Vanesse St. Domingue, the main character's quadroon mistress in New Orleans.
