The First Jumper (first draft version)

This is the first draft, and will remain free on Wattpad. The revised version has now been published! An alien explorer meets disaster on ancient Earth, and must invade the body of a primitive human to survive, creating great difficulties for the alien, the human, and the human community, as an impending ice age threa...

On the Opening of a Library (poem)

Frederick, Maryland has some downtown gems. The most famous (other than the tomb of Francis Scott Key) is the painted bridge. It is a plain concrete bridge over Carroll Creek, just outside a local art museum. A local artist painted the entire bridge in realistic colors as if it were old stone with ivy, with various...