“If it’s fiction, it better be true.”

There is something about the writing of fiction that combines the most difficult parts of spiritual practice with the most difficult parts of writing. In almost every other spiritual practice, whatever you do is gone and you don’t have to look at it the next morning and see how you did. But when you write fiction, the extraordinary burst of brilliant prose that you write in the afternoon curdles like soured milk by the next morning and you are amazed and embarrassed at how you could think that had been good. It’s unclear to me why I write fiction, as it has been the most difficult thing I have ever attempted. But I continue to do so with revulsion, and pleasure. And, fortunately, I have been able to publish the results in a number of places.

One of my short pieces that is already online and that you may enjoy reading is Shiva's Spider.

Links to more of my fiction will be coming to this website in early 2005.

Thank you for your patience.