Ian Pierce, an NCIS special agent, is on a hunt for a murderer aboard the USS Kitty Hawk. He tracks the killer down but ends up with an experience that changes him forever.
[Published in the Hardboiled magazine, pages 40-46, Volume 31, January 2004.]
On her last day in Naples, Italy, Ashley Mildred, a U.S. navy doctor, reflects on her life with her lover, Marcello Pasquale, an Italian Carabinieri officer, who died in the Afghan war.
[Published in The Northern Virginia Review, pages 61-73, Volume 27, Spring 2013.]
In Rome, Italy, I go on a search for Nelson, a one-eyed cat king of a children’s book. Instead, in an archaeological site, I find a world full of cats and cat-loving people.
[An edited version published as “Cats Among the Ruins” in the 3 February 2009 issue of The Christian Science Monitor.]
THE BEGINNING OF THE JOURNEY A little boy sat on a rock that overlooked a verdant valley. The sun was rising. One side of the valley soaked up the sunlight as the darkness faded. The Read more
WRITE LIKE HEMINGWAY? Who wouldn’t want to write like Papa? Ernest Hemingway is one of my favorite writers. I’ve read most of his works, some over and over many times over the years. Even bought Read more
OUR DIVINE PARENTS Under the stars of a moonless night, deep in the forest, Shishya, an eight-year-old dark-skinned boy, sat facing a small lake. Next to him sat his master. “Bapu,” the boy said, pulling Read more
MICHAEL ARNDT – LEARN FROM THE MASTER Several years ago I attended the Hawaii Writers Conference (now defunct), where Michael Arndt, an Academy Award screenwriter of Little Miss Sunshine, spoke about how to craft a Read more
A GRAIN OF SAND For six days, Shishya, an eight-year-old dark skinned boy, and his guru, Bapu, a white-bearded old man wearing a saffron robe, traveled through a barren land seeking for a place of Read more
STEVEN GOLDSBERRY’S TAKE ONGREAT STORY TITLES What first catches the eye and mind—while browsing through a bookstore for a good read to buy, or flicking through your on-demand movie selections for a good film to Read more