I do believe you’ll want to get a hold of The Book of Norman, my collection of 18 connected short stories, either for yourself or to give to someone else at this time of year, or both.
Happy New Year! And Salutations of the Season!
Found on You Tube: At the End of the Millennium Video
Lo and Behold: Believe me, I was drifting, off the mooring entirely. Didn't want to work. So, just for laughs, I searched my name, and lo and behold, this video came up.
The Book of Norman makes a Summer Reading List
Good news about The Book of Norman, my new collection of short stories.
Publishing News: The Book of Norman
"A comedic universe awaits in the stories of Wayne Cresser’s The Book of Norman, a landscape that revolves around his Everyman protagonist, Norman Winters, suffering the relatable slings and arrows prevalent in a world of prevaricators, weirdos, and bullies so you don’t have to." Now available at Amazon, Barnes. Lulu amd Kobo.
From the Flash Stash VIII: Tending to the Hanging Garden
I’ll go inside and seek out the laminated card that tells me I was watering a Double Pink Fuchsia, known for its beautiful, multi-colored, pendant blooms which can grow up to three inches long.
Picture This Playlist 31: Eight Arms to Hold You
(This show was broadcast on Sunday, January 7 from 7 to 8 PM, on WRIU Kingston, 90.3 FM, also streaming at wriu.org. It will be re-broadcast on Sunday, January 14, same time same place) Listen here: Theme from The Wild One, composed by Leith Stevens, featuring Shorty Rogers Rock Around the Clock from Blackboard Jungle composed by Max C. Freedman and... Continue Reading →
The Hobbledehoy’s Christmas Compendium
by Dai Bando There are five new additions to my annual “Greatest Christmas Songs” list, now thirty songs in total! This is disconcerting, since my original raison d'être was the claim that there are only about ten good Christmas songs. Then ten became fifteen, then twenty-five, and now thirty. So, I appear to be wro…wr… challenged, in my... Continue Reading →
From the Flash Stash VI: Baines
The well-dressed man in the film says, “It’s a great life if you don’t weaken.” Maybe then, it’s a good life if you don’t weaken much and an okay life if you don’t weaken a lot, and a shitty life if all you do is weaken. That’s the thing about film heroes, though, they get... Continue Reading →
From the Flash Stash V: Art’s Parties (The Devil’s Interior Design Episode)
by Wayne Cresser (Originally published in the Ocean State Review Volume 8: No. 1, 2018) If you hang around Art's parties long enough, you're bound to run into the guy who resembles Crispin Glover, in anything, a gawky watch-capped scarecrow whose clothes add up to thrift store poetry and ragamuffin rhymes. He's the guy who... Continue Reading →
Sites we like on this day, the last one of Summer 2023
Oh, if and when you go there, stay for a while. Look into the nooks and crannies, and try to remember, you've got to come back out sometime, if only to go back again later, if you know what I mean.
Just Between You and Me 