The Christmas Trout

The Christmas Trout

A well-meaning friend once asked about the most perfect meal I ever had, and I thought for a moment and then responded, “Anything my Mom ever cooked. ” That’s about as far as I could narrow it down. The truth is, there are precious few encounters with Perfection in a...
Lady to the Rescue

Lady to the Rescue

In 1912, in the southern part of the British Protectorate of East Africa (Kenya), a search party of two was coming to the end of its journey. The men were ER. M. Shelley and Lord Stafford, the Duke of Sutherland. They had left the main safari and gone south to look...
Excerpt from Blood Red Mackinaw by Ryan Stalvey

Excerpt from Blood Red Mackinaw by Ryan Stalvey

Inch by inch, the afternoon sun steadily dissolves, casting an orange and pink haze over the sparsely populated landscape of rural Pennsylvania. From the front window of a seedy boarding house, Curt Sloan peers through the unclean glass panes, then disappears back...