Author Archives: WmA

A man tries a therapy app. “Something Like a Cloud” a short story now on Substack. Plus Cloudbreak, Book Jacket Bracket, Goodreads Giveaway, and Night School. For the third time this week and the fourth week in a row, I slip into my car for lunch. Something. Just. Feels. Off. Again. I can’t describe itContinue reading ““Something Like a Cloud” plus Cloudbreak, Goodreads Giveaway, Book Jacket Bracket, and Night School”

Colleen unlocks the door that squeaks under the PIGEON FORGE DIN-O-RAMA FUNLAND sign at the far end of the mall. A pterodactyl swoops over the letters, eggs cracking under trees, a brontosaurus nibbling leaves, and a T-rex’s silhouette. She flicks on the lights; dodges fabric, metal, and plastic scattered on the floor and hanging offContinue reading ““The Last Dinosaur Room” and Goodreads Giveaway for Cloudbreak””

A couple redefines their life. “Triptych,” a short story now on Substack. Two women in line ahead of me ask if boys are all right and the men they will become as they scan their jeans, candles, and a shirt with three states joining hands over a point their borders share, and I tell themContinue reading ““Triptych””

“A life inside yourself isn’t a life.” Seventeen stories laced with humor and heart crisscross America where ordinary men and women search for identity and order. A retired colonel investigates a cloaked figure at a naval station. Struggling with PTSD, a sister makes a request of her brother. After success at work, a man’s stressContinue reading “Cloudbreak – New Story Collection Available 19 September 2025”