Chapter 11: “Bronx Detention Center (or, What Alex Doesn’t Know)” (from BRONX NIGHTS 🌃🍎)
I published Bronx Nights in June 2025. It’s now February 2026. I left a dozen chapters unwritten “for the future.” Right now, I’m celebrating my full recovery from my two worst Long COVID symptoms: Brain Fog & Chronic Insomnia. I’m finally at a place where I can share one of the darkest, […]
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Feb, 10, 2026
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Postlude to Apocalypse
“Oh, they’ve encased him in carbonite. He should be quite well protected. If he survived the freezing process, that is.” and so it goes Arik Bjorn awoke one morning from Waking Dreams (plus Long COVID) and found himself in bed. There was also a bear just sitting there, beside his bed. A […]
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- Dec, 14, 2025
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Chapter 10: “CON” (from BRONX NIGHTS 🌃🍎)
This is the story about a boy named Jaime. He’ll tell you. He grew up on a dirt floor in Orangeburg, South Carolina. That’s where his story begins. Sorry, he has impaled himself on this origin. Yes, it’s sad. But some of us got ass-raped at the age of five, and, you […]
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- Jul, 26, 2025
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Chapter 9: “Nova” (from BRONX NIGHTS 🌃🍎)
Alex is the least spiritual person I know. That’s not pejorative. Some people simply prefer only to exist in material space. I have no problem with that. I respected that part of her enough to love her. That said, Alex kept a self-declared witch, Verse, in the bag as her self-proclaimed […]
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- Jul, 23, 2025
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Chapter 7 1/2: “The Mermaid Clothed” (from BRONX NIGHTS 🌃🍎)
You know, I’ve always wanted to publish this story. Let’s call it a bonus. In my early 20s, I imagined I might someday be a literary voice. What became is this—but this was an early stab at it. Away, it’s kind of juvenilia. But it’s where my romantic heart resided, at the […]
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- Jun, 13, 2025
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I think Uber Nights is the perfect bathroom book. If there are any public libraries out there listening, I think they should put a copy in every stall.
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