“The Coronavirus Blues (‘What do you have to lose?’) — in B/Maj-7th” Thomas Balzac had never composed a funeral dirge and now he must do so for the hundreds of thousands in the world who are fast succumbing from complications of SARS-CoV-2 (“Coronavirus”) which suddenly and evilly enslaves humans as…

Aziz is on the run in Afghanistan and in hiding…

The Vieux Carré Times New Orleans News & Views Summer, 2021 The second day of Summer 2021 passed with, both, little and great things happening in the continuing life of the…

A special forces Army Ranger during the Gulf Wars, Gregory Arthur Conan took up his mother’s trade (Parisian artist) after serving two tours of combat duty. …

I'll add to the many laurels laid here at your feet, Steven, good read. But I don't totally agree. Doesn't it depend on writing style? You need book knowledge and a sense of proper paragraph structure to write a nonfiction story, for example. Moreover, even novice fiction writers know to…

It’s Saturday, early afternoon and Balzac does not know where to begin composing the funeral dirge for his dear friend Banjo Mike. An alcohol induced cerebral aneurysm was inevitable, everybody knew it was coming. The old musician would have liked to use the A-minor key; however, its over-popularity in today’s…

I didn't realize lawyers hung out at Medium, certainly not med-mal ones very cool. My first Medium stories -- working title is: "Lawyers Who Help Doctors to get Away With Murder" -- were an attempt to explain Louisiana's "med-mal factory" set up 50 years ago by lawyer-Legislators as a way…

Lafourche, thanks good comment, is this a "structure" vs. "spontaneity" debate? What in heck is "structure" anyway; isn't that cheating, like making an outline or having an ending in mind for a story or ...poem? Me a poet, you suggest? ha. that's rich I can't construct two words together without…

Hi Justin, since 1999 I've had this online 'net-paper "publication" that's half-baked (no funds to hire a computer guru to fix-up); but in my mind it has a great premise, as I once mentioned on Twitter: "No government ought to be without censors." (T. Jefferson); however: "'Freedom of the Press'…