See my Tannhauser PI short story, Green River, in the Fall/Winter 2020 edition. What is Ground Fiction? Ground is a bi-annual literary journal and writing collective publishing new fiction from our collective and from new authors invited to contribute by the editors. All genres are published except overly sex-driven or violence-centric stories. The only requirement […]
Writing
C.S. Forester
“Hornblower did not want to run away. He had the weather gauge, and in a moment he could set all sail and come to the wind and stand out to sea, but he did not want to. He could be quite sure that if he were to do so the frigate would follow his example […]
The Shield of Achilles
She looked over his shoulderFor vines and olive trees,Marble well-governed citiesAnd ships upon untamed seas,But there on the shining metalHis hands had put insteadAn artificial wildernessAnd a sky like lead. A plain without a feature, bare and brown,No blade of grass, no sign of neighborhood,Nothing to eat and nowhere to sit down,Yet, congregated on its […]
True Grit
“I had hated these ponies for the part they played in my father’s death but now I realized the notion was fanciful, that it was wrong to charge blame to these pretty beasts who knew neither good nor evil but only innocence. I say that of these ponies. I have known some horses and a […]
