Books & Literature
The Written Word
Announcing: Two of my Novellas are also Available in Trade Paperback!
Two of my novellas—Forever Anna Day, and The Crossing—are now available on Amazon in trade paperback (and, of course, on...
Announcing: My Epic Novel PRIMEVAL is Now Available on Amazon!
PRIMEVAL by Rand Eastwood is an epic novel wherein an evil entity—or a creature, or a monster, or a demon,...
The River: A New Flash-Fiction Short Story
Many people believe the forest is haunted...but it's the river. How do I know? I live here, have since I...
Hell or High Water: A Short Story
A lone knight on a steel horse meets a sad small-town Cinderella...but will this fantasy love affair work out?
A Bearable Darkness of Being: A Short Story
Do we control our shadows, or do our shadows control us? And what if our shadows did a better job...
Request Denied: A Short Story
One night while home alone and quietly enjoying a drink and a cigar out on his rear balcony, a wealthy,...
Examination Day | A Short Story by Henry Slesar
A friend recommended that I read the short story Examination Day by Henry Slesar—and now I understand why...
The War Prayer by Mark Twain
Mark Twain wrote The War Prayer in 1905, in response to the Spanish–American War and the subsequent Philippine–American War. It...
Live Not By Lies by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn was arrested for publishing Live Not by Lies. He said: "Let the lie come into the world, let...
Ethics In Diet
The abuse, cruelty, and suffering inflicted upon the animals in factory farms, plus FREE ebook: The First Step, or The...
The Law of Love & The Law of Violence by Leo Tolstoy
Tolstoy states that the true Christian doctrine consists only in the recognition of love as the supreme law of life,...
The Lowest Animal by Mark Twain
In The Lowest Animal, Mark Twain describes how animals often show greater civility than humans, causing him to ponder man's...
Trade Wind: A Short Story
A man wakes up on the beach of a desert island still strapped to his airliner seat, bruised and bloody,...
Announcement: Introducing Compass Bookstore!
I've been reading & writing since I was a kid, and now blogging for many years, all the while constantly...
