Donald Trump’s call for a “Space Force” as fourth branch of the military is a distraction. That is all it is, a bit of handwaving to seize your attention from the criminality taking place elsewhere. To discuss it at all is to fall for the trick. And yet, and yet, I will, long enough to […]
Originally Published in Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, February-March 2016. This is not a review of Marvel’s Jessica Jones miniseries on Netflix. It begins there but heads other places. If you insist, I will establish right away that the comic book it comes from, Alias, is one of my all-time favorites, that I think the miniseries […]
Originally published on Facebook 12 February 2014. Story idea: protagonist bearing scars of many past brushes with death is relaxing on his private island beside a gorgeous woman who is clearly crazy about him. …A boat pulls up and it’s an acquaintance from the old days. There’s a crisis, and only protagonist can deal with […]
