The advice in this book was gleaned from four years of Writer's Digest articles, from 1998 to 2001. At that time I was incarcerated and, unable to keep the magazines with me, I took to condensing the advice onto notepaper.

How did Man make the change from hunter/gatherer to farmer? What forces moved us to settle down and build cities? Read "Evolution" and find out.

How shiny would your life look if your lawn bore a sign listing all your past sins?

Killers aren't born, they are made... though some killers are more easily made than others.

A story of an optimist who became a pessimist after nuclear war made his teeth fall out, and then became an optimist again when he found a new set.

A man can live and be happy with any evil in his past... until he can no longer hide from it.

This collection of short-stories features Cavanaugh's Cure - about a young man coming of age in a dystopian future - and Making Room - in which Allen Rose learns the danger of harboring two incompatible world-views. With twenty-one stories in all, (the longest being 16,395 words and the shortest 104, including the title) you're sure to find something to pass any amount of time.

A madman has destroyed the human race, leaving only a remnant alive to glorify him for until the end of time. Cavanaugh's Cure is the story of a boy becoming a man in the society which grew out of that destruction.

What does one do with one's afterlife?

The forces that shape us can often have a power which far exceeds our life spans. The forces which shaped Dorothy O'hara began before her birth... with the death of her mother....

A compilation of fifty-two haiku comprising twenty-seven poems which describe the ebb and flow of my relationship with a young woman.

Where do you go after you die?