Author of St. Michael Poker & Drinking Club and Baxter's Friends
I'm pleased to report I've had a new piece accepted for publication. "Swan Upping on the Thames" will appear in Poydras Review, Feb. more...
My short story "Potential" is included in the Spring/Summer 2017 ed. of the Examined Life more...
I'm pleased to announce I signed a contract for the publication of my novel CEMETERY ROAD, a prequel of sorts to BAXTER'S FRIENDS. Details to more...
My recent poem, Papa, was published May 3 by The voices Project. It is an unconventional look at more...
"Papa", an unconventional look at Hemingway, was published by The Voices Project May 3rd: more...
My most recent poem RAINY DAYS AND appeared in The American Journal of Poetry, vol. 2, more...
Karen Carpenter, poem, poetry, Rainy Days and Mondays, The Carpenters
This year I've been into reading Russians: Tolstoy's War and Peace and Anna Karenina; Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamasov. I put off reading these books for years due to their length. However, once I got into them I found the writing compelling and smooth (apparently they translate well) and easy to read. I've only found one author writing in more...
Anna Karenina, Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky, novelists, novels, Robertson Davies, Russia, Russian, The Brothers Karamasov, Tolstoy, War and Peace
A new short story POTENTIAL has been selected for inclusion in the next edition of The Examined Life: A Literary Journal of the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine. POTENTIAL is an adaptation of a chapter from my second novel CEMETERY ROAD, which I am presently more...
health, medicine, mental illness, short story, The Examined Life
Here is a link to the on-line version of "Prognostication" in Rose Red Review. At first reading it may appear to be a bit of whimsy, but on further consideration I think you will see a deeper more...
A recent poem "Under the Streetlight In the Rain" was published by Poydras Review May 2nd. Take a more...
Down Cemetery Road is the much-anticipated prequel to the unforgettable Baxter’s Friends. Ned Randle raises the curtain on the formative years of Billy Bright’s life, revealing a formula for his adult years that is at once both intoxicating and utterly sobering. Down Cemetery Road delves into the disillusionment of adolescence sadly often shot down by mid-life.
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