As most people who know me for any length of time quickly discover, I write. Most don't know how intensely I get absorbed in it, how real it becomes to me while I'm in the middle of it... or the wrenching feeling when I have to walk away from it and go back to the everyday world.

I write novel-length fiction. I occasionally write short fiction, and the presentable examples are available here. I write simply for my own amusement, just to see what will happen if I put characters in a given situation, and then switch the roles around and see how that influences the outcome, which is usually quite a lot. I have worlds of my own I visit to explore, learn, practice, and escape.

It's hard to stick with something long enough to finish it when you don't have an audience, real or intended. Writing 100,000+ words, preferably words that form sentences and ideas, is hard work, and sometimes it gets very discouraging. But somehow there are always more words there, something in life suggesting another twist on that idea if not on this one, and on it goes....

The Shadow Realm has existed in one incarnation or another, on one host and domain or another, for quite some time now, and I first created it while using the online name Tenebra. This is home to my shorter works, for which an open mind is recommended.

At one point I had hoped to get my longer work published, but the publishing business being what it is these days, I decided I'd rather just write and share it with anyone who might enjoy it. You can find my novels and ongoing stories at The Worlds Within.

I hope you enjoy, and please let me know what you liked and what you didn't much care for - the combination is both encouraging and allows me to learn more and improve my writing.