)Originally published on www.ricktreon.com on May 5th, 2020) WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW Then research the things you don’t. By Andrew J Brandt I...

PROLOGUE RACHEL HERNANDEZ KNEW she was in trouble. As the sun sank just below the horizon line, the night air cooling to the point that s...

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I walk into Urbana Coffee Works on South Coulter to the smell and sounds of a mid-day coffee shop in full bloom. Students sit dispersed a...

For as long as I can remember, I've been Journal Guy, keeping a Moleskine notebook around for random jots of ideas, thoughts, snippets of...

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When I first started writing IN THE FOG, I started with the germ of an idea: what would happen if a guy woke up one morning to find that ...