transnewyork][miamiexpress
new york to anticipated nowhere. pills. hallucinogens. controllable substances. cigarettes laced with strychnine. puffing the weeping willows; smokestacks form the dark tracts where sunlight pokes rabbit holes into the clouds of an industrial and commercial complex. old dogs shuffling to ancient territorial grounds; a man stands against the train’s d

Little Jagged Teeth
My thumb was sliced against the jagged teeth of an expensive bread cutting knife, so now I look at the bite marks hoping they’ll open again. The lateral wounds — four of them — resemble the bars of a jail cell. The fifth bar has already healed. It’s what I got for procrastinating the completion of the first draft of my book. That’s what I get except I finished the book anyway; even increased the size of

Into the Flood
October proved to be a successful month for The Whiskey Dregs. It was a great pleasure editing the publication and strapping on my amateur splicing abilities, looking for stories, meeting new writers, and improving my surrealist nightmares. I was unsatisfied, however, by my lack of fiction or creative non-fiction that was written — almost nil. Fast fo

It’s a Whiskey Dregs Halloween, Charlie Brown
  Click me to find your way  I’m taking a break from writing in this blog for about a month to focus on the Halloween issue of The Whiskey Dregs. I’ve been looking forward to this for a long time so I hope that it’s as entertaining and insightful as it was for me to edit and write these stories. A lot of

Sleepy Hollow Cemetery: The happiest place on Earth!
Old Dutch Graveyard Skip ahead to click on any photo to enlarge It’s no secret to most of my friends and family that I can’t help myself around a cemetery. I have taken trips on the MTA North in the dead ass sink of winter just to snap photos of luxurious tombstones in off-the-beaten path towns such as Mt. Kisco. Going to