

Just a Friendly Chat
I n “The Dagger,” a story in The Deadliest Deceptions , Achilles is on the trail of his old gladiator buddy, Ursus: You could say I’d...


Bar Room Brawls are Likely Events in Noir Fiction
Let’s listen in on the couple living in that seedy flat upstairs: “You think I like it in this attic cage, slinging hash while jiggling...


Curse in Ancient Greek
Of course, my characters in the Miriam bat Isaac Mystery Series occasionally use profanity, and if they’re Greek, they swear in ancient...


What a Terrible Day!
What a terrible day in 79 CE when the Amphitheater of Pompeii was buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius! And what a great amphitheater...


Alexandria's Oldest Burial Tombs
These underground chambers, the oldest burial tombs in Alexandria, are cut into the bedrock around an open court where funerary rituals...


The Rule of Three
In the 2017 Duck Tales series , the triplets have distinct voices and personalities: Huey is intelligent and logical, Dewey is...


A Smashing Review of The Deadliest Returns
Alan R. Warren, Crime Writer and NBC Radio Host June Trop invites readers to step into the rich tapestry of the Roman Empire with her...


Where Do Our Creative Ideas Come From?
The essence of imagination is conjuring up an image or sensory impression from memory and then reconfiguring it to create something new....


Liver Spots Appear As We Age
As we get older, age spots often start showing on our skin. Age spots are small, flat, darker areas that appear on skin exposed to the...


It's Time For a Mediterranean Cruise
Miriam is searching for Zoe, the young woman who disappeared in “The Betrothal”, my short story published in the February, 2025 issue of ...






