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elcome to my cyber
den! I live and write in Newton, Massachusetts. Right now, I'm working
on a legal thriller. I set up this Web site to communicate with fellow
readers and writers on the Net.
Now some
good news! I took a break from those two file-drawers full of research
and 120,000 words a legal thriller entails and wrote a screenplay.
Yes, wrote it up as a screenplay first! It's also called Squeezing Belle. Squeezing?
In the legal sense, of course, as in squeezing a witness. But
in other ways too! Mmmm. Men like that! Any literary agents out there
looking for that next fun thriller screenplay, e-mail
me!
Read and
comment on the prologue to Squeezing Belle, an irreverent
legal thriller in which Belle
butts heads with the local District Attorney over the murder of a neighbor
and becomes the target for both the good guys and the bad guys.
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A Different Opinion
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For
unusual political commentary, join the conversation at Mrs.
G's table, where the food is 5-star and the opinions give new
meaning to the words "a different take"! |
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"Hey, I
understand perfectly," Belle said. "A little mangled syntax here, a Malapropism there! Throw in a bad-boy
grin — why, soon we're talking real leadership material." |
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More analysis with attitude from Mrs. G's table: |
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"With my plan, everyone who pays taxes gets a tax cut," the
politician intoned plaintively from the television screen. |
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"We've got a reverse Robin Hood on
our hands," Belle declared. She speared a chunky piece of lobster tail
with her fork and held it up for emphasis... |
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"How can one throw one's weight
around if one doesn't have any?" Belle asked. |
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Laugh at
other people's in-law problems and forget your own! Jane, the born underdog,
is wallowing in her in-law troubles. Again! She is only 5 feet 2 inches
tall and weighs 100 pounds. Her in-laws are large and rich. Not much
hope there it seems.
But wait! Here comes her friend Belle,
a 'babe geek' armed with her 180 pounds and her subversive sense of justice!
Follow the epic struggle in The Rotating Mother-in-Law, a funny
episodic short story structured entirely with Dramatica.
Impatient? Want to jump ahead to the
funniest episode posted so far? Then tickle the ethics circuits of your brain
with Episode 3: Deception, It's the Softer Side
of Violence!
Note for Dramatica
aficionados !!! Check out the Dramatica Signposts and Appreciations at the
bottom of the page.
Managed
care is great — for routine, clear-cut conditions. However, if you
are unfortunate enough to have a problem which is hard to diagnose or
for which there is no established standard of care — an outlier,
as we say in statistics land — then you are in jeopardy! But knowledge
is power! Read Managed Care: What You Don't Know Can
Hurt You! and let me know if you agree with my prescriptions!
Laugh
at other people's in-law problems and forget your own! Underdog,
A Free Web Serial about Life in the Doghouse
chronicles the tragi-comic troubles of Jane, a short, nerdy and broke
programmer, struggling to survive her own inadequacies, assorted put-downs,
and pressure from her large, rich in-laws, who seriously, seriously dislike
her. She is at a crossroads. What would you do in her shoes? Your advice
can change the course of her life!
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