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Authors Note: I wrote Jocko’s Gone as a love letter to an earlier time in my old neighborhood on Aurelia Court in Brooklyn where I grew up. Part of the motivation to write came from my Mom and her best friend, Kaye Schuman. They both enjoyed this fond memory when I first shared it with them, and I dedicate this story to both of them. In 2024 I submitted Jocko’s Gone to Writer’s Digest and it won as an alternate selection in the short life story category. They must have really

Chapter 1 – Reunion Party I was stoked. The Air Force had granted me a few days’ leave to see my old war buddy, Fred. He’d medically retired three years earlier and now worked at some secret squirrel lab on a secluded base, far from civilization in the low-lying hills between California and Arizona. If you looked at a map, you wouldn’t find it. I rented a car at the airport and drove along the twisting two lane mountain road that wove through pine forests and carved tunnels

Dinosaurmen Book 1 – Stegaron’s Hoax In the mid nineteen eighties I envisioned a fictional world where reptiles were not killed off by an asteroid and evolved to become the dominant species on the planet. They gained intelligence, mastered technology, and formed cities governed by a King and a Royal Court with representatives from each of the original sub-species of their larger race. Originally, I told the tale to my son and illustrated a comic strip for him with Dinosaurmen