“Diabolical: Three Tales of Jack Thurston and Revenge” is Available on Kindle and in Print

Please go to amazon.com/author/philslattery or Goodreads or any other social media to leave a review. Jack Thurston is a retired professor of medieval literature and history. He is also a widower and father and a retired sorcerer who has returned to the black arts to exact revenge for the death of his wife, daughter, and … Continue reading ““Diabolical: Three Tales of Jack Thurston and Revenge” is Available on Kindle and in Print”

Update December 12, 2019, 11:11 p.m. House and the Golden Bowl

For a week or more, I have been making some progress on Shadows and Stars bit by bit, a sentence or word at a time. In the background, because my place is so solitary and quiet, I have been running re-runs of House in the background (I have the series on DVD). I am on … Continue reading “Update December 12, 2019, 11:11 p.m. House and the Golden Bowl”

“Nocturne: Poems of Love, Distance, and the Night…” is Available on Amazon Kindle

Nocturne: Poems of Love, Distance, and the Night, a callous and disinterested lover is a collection of my poetry written from the mid-80’s to mid-90s, a turbulent, fluid time in my life in many ways, but especially romantically. I have taken many of the poems written during those years and compiled them into a dark narrative … Continue reading ““Nocturne: Poems of Love, Distance, and the Night…” is Available on Amazon Kindle”

“Diabolical: Three Tales of Jack Thurston and Revenge” is Available on Kindle and in Print

Please go to amazon.com/author/philslattery or Goodreads or any other social media to leave a review. Jack Thurston is a retired professor of medieval literature and history. He is also a widower and father and a retired sorcerer who has returned to the black arts to exact revenge for the death of his wife, daughter, and … Continue reading ““Diabolical: Three Tales of Jack Thurston and Revenge” is Available on Kindle and in Print”

“Nocturne: Poems of Love, Distance, and the Night…” is Available on Amazon Kindle

Nocturne: Poems of Love, Distance, and the Night, a callous and disinterested lover is a collection of my poetry written from the mid-80’s to mid-90s, a turbulent, fluid time in my life in many ways, but especially romantically. I have taken many of the poems written during those years and compiled them into a dark narrative … Continue reading ““Nocturne: Poems of Love, Distance, and the Night…” is Available on Amazon Kindle”

“Nocturne: Poems of Love, Distance, and the Night…” is Available on Amazon Kindle

Nocturne: Poems of Love, Distance, and the Night, a callous and disinterested lover is a collection of my poetry written from the mid-80’s to mid-90s, a turbulent, fluid time in my life in many ways, but especially romantically. I have taken many of the poems written during those years and compiled them into a dark narrative … Continue reading ““Nocturne: Poems of Love, Distance, and the Night…” is Available on Amazon Kindle”

“Diabolical: Three Tales of Jack Thurston and Revenge” is Available on Kindle and in Print

Please go to amazon.com/author/philslattery or Goodreads or any other social media to leave a review. Jack Thurston is a retired professor of medieval literature and history. He is also a widower and father and a retired sorcerer who has returned to the black arts to exact revenge for the death of his wife, daughter, and … Continue reading ““Diabolical: Three Tales of Jack Thurston and Revenge” is Available on Kindle and in Print”

Update, November 30, 2019: Progress on New Story Collection “Slattery’s Classic Tales of Horror”

If you have followed my website, you know that I usually post a short horror story from the nineteenth or early twentieth century on Saturday nights. I call it “The Saturday Night Special”. I have accumulated somewhere around 36+ stories, all of which are in the public domain. I have decided to collect these into … Continue reading “Update, November 30, 2019: Progress on New Story Collection “Slattery’s Classic Tales of Horror””

“Diabolical: Three Tales of Vengeance and the Sorcerer Jack Thurston” is Free Today to Celebrate the Festival of Hecate Trivia

Today, Diabolical is free today in celebration of the festival of Hecate Trivia. Wikipedia says of Hecate: Hecate or Hekate (/ˈhɛkətiː/; Ancient Greek: Ἑκάτη, Hekátē) is a goddess in ancient Greek religion and mythology, most often shown holding a pair of torches or a key and in later periods depicted in triple form. She is variously associated with crossroads, entrance-ways, light, magic, witchcraft, knowledge of herbs and … Continue reading ““Diabolical: Three Tales of Vengeance and the Sorcerer Jack Thurston” is Free Today to Celebrate the Festival of Hecate Trivia”

“Nocturne: Poems of Love, Distance, and the Night…” is Available on Amazon Kindle

Nocturne: Poems of Love, Distance, and the Night, a callous and disinterested lover is a collection of my poetry written from the mid-80’s to mid-90s, a turbulent, fluid time in my life in many ways, but especially romantically. I have taken many of the poems written during those years and compiled them into a dark narrative … Continue reading ““Nocturne: Poems of Love, Distance, and the Night…” is Available on Amazon Kindle”

“Diabolical: Three Tales of Jack Thurston and Revenge” is Available on Kindle and in Print

Please go to amazon.com/author/philslattery or Goodreads or any other social media to leave a review. Jack Thurston is a retired professor of medieval literature and history. He is also a widower and father and a retired sorcerer who has returned to the black arts to exact revenge for the death of his wife, daughter, and … Continue reading ““Diabolical: Three Tales of Jack Thurston and Revenge” is Available on Kindle and in Print”

“Nocturne: Poems of Love, Distance, and the Night…” is Available on Amazon Kindle

Nocturne: Poems of Love, Distance, and the Night, a callous and disinterested lover is a collection of my poetry written from the mid-80’s to mid-90s, a turbulent, fluid time in my life in many ways, but especially romantically. I have taken many of the poems written during those years and compiled them into a dark narrative … Continue reading ““Nocturne: Poems of Love, Distance, and the Night…” is Available on Amazon Kindle”

“Diabolical: Three Tales of Jack Thurston and Revenge” is Available on Kindle and in Print

Please go to amazon.com/author/philslattery or Goodreads or any other social media to leave a review. Jack Thurston is a retired professor of medieval literature and history. He is also a widower and father and a retired sorcerer who has returned to the black arts to exact revenge for the death of his wife, daughter, and … Continue reading ““Diabolical: Three Tales of Jack Thurston and Revenge” is Available on Kindle and in Print”

Update: November 19, 2019, 4:42 a.m. “Warehouses and All”

As I often do, I am having trouble sleeping tonight. So I have been surfing the net and going through my electronic files looking for some flash fiction that I recently wrote and that I would like to submit somewhere. However, in the process of doing that, I ran across some early works, one of … Continue reading “Update: November 19, 2019, 4:42 a.m. “Warehouses and All””

Now Taking Submissions and Announcements for the Arkansas Country Writers Circle Website

I will consider articles, short stories, and poems for publication on the Arkansas County Writers Circle website. Please feel free to submit at any time. I will try to post your work as soon as I can. Of course, preference will be given to writers from Arkansas and particularly from Arkansas County. There is no … Continue reading “Now Taking Submissions and Announcements for the Arkansas Country Writers Circle Website”