at SRO on McKinney Avenue from the upcoming book Free Lunch In a restaurant in a West end town Call the police there's a mad man around...

from The Legend of Sky Diamond Sky Diamond (star, Sky Diamond Superstar): The song “Tush” was a Skitz playlist favorite. He was always...

From Jackson, the novel, Chapter Two Christmas '69 by Cindy Marabito The grandkids were sugar-fried from eating ribbon candy, all that...

Everybody went by stage names at the Dollhouse. There were three sisters who worked there. Garland was the oldest. When she started...

There was a family poker game every weekend across from the high school. Gene and the guys had hit the Romano fast and hard like a Cottonmo

Country Fay Molina (Local Beaumont party maven) I got to know a lot about Gene Diamond. More than most, that’s for sure. People around here

It was funny that I once believed in princesses. My own childhood was such a horror story that I didn’t pick up on the terror in the fairy t

I never considered myself a writer. At least I didn’t until the mid 90’s. That was when this group, Turn the Page, started up in my unit. I

FROM the Chapter "On the Road" Jules, the Truth Finder HOW JULES found Nellie, the clairvoyant Border Collie outside Waco.... I felt a...

A Thousand Dollar Wedding from The Legend of Sky Diamond Boy, the smell of chicken frieds was overwhelming. It was back during the...

From the Chapter Wild Thing from The Legend of Sky Diamond Then, there was the time Joey Perrini came into the Dollhouse. We all knew who...

A Thousand Dollar Wedding from The Legend of Sky Diamond Boy, the smell of chicken frieds was overwhelming. We’d all pile up at the...

"Real characters don’t audition for you. Real people just pass through your life and dole a little of themselves out bit by bit. Take it...

My imagination is priceless. I never know what's going to happen next and it's always a wild unusual adventure.

I woke up this morning and saw my friend Michael Crockett's wonderful beautiful painting and had to steal it! Like minds think ...

I’m a Monkey It was raining in San Francisco. It always rained when Joe was in this town at night. A cab pulled over and the door popped...