500 Words on Arbor Day

January 29, 2013 -- RBM has new flash nonfiction, "500 Words on Arbor Day," featured online this week over at Hobart. So as not to give too much away, here's a (five-word) excerpt:

... There is talk of lightening ...

For more from Hobart, consider subscribing, buying a good book by a friend of this blog, or reading some of the journal's fine fiction in The Best American Short Stories 2012.

The View from Indian Beach

January 6, 2013 -- The view from Indian Beach and Oregon's Ecola State Park, where Lewis and Clark visited a beached whale in 1806, and later, Steven Spielberg's crew filmed much of The Goonies.

The View from Wind River

December 30, 2012 -- Pictures from a perfect day along Washington's upper Wind River, where recreational access has returned to "normal" this season.

Kakorrhaphiophobia

RBM has a new short story, "Kakorrhaphiophobia," in the current issue of Otis Nebula. An excerpt:

This had happened once before, during his freelancing days in Washington, before he went back to teaching—in the vast, unfinished basement on Georgia Avenue that he’d shared with a luggage boy from the Marriott. Feral cats had ripped holes in their window screens. Benjamin awoke to the sound of his laundry money being poured into a sock. The boy’s brow was glistening, and he held a finger to his lips. Benjamin thought he was being robbed—was about to offer the boy some real money—when the sock took flight. It only hung near the water pipes for a half-second. Just long enough for something fast and brown to seize hold, then crash to the linoleum, where it flapped for a while. The boy said he’d used the same trick back home, in Nigeria. Benjamin wasn’t sure if it could be true, but it made his column that week—all about harmless Chiroptera, his place in literature and his good work in your backyard.

For more from ON6, check out this week's review from NewPages.com.

Photo of the Day

September 22, 2012 -- Sunset over the lower Missouri on this, the first day of autumn.

The View from North Platte

August 12, 2012 -- Scenes real and hallucinatory from the Fort Cody Trading Post in North Platte, Nebraska, and Scout's Rest, William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody's nearby ranch, which housed livestock for the showman's infamous Wild West.

Photo of the Day

August 5, 2012 -- The view from Washington's Clark County Fair and "The World's Premier Canine Aquatics Competition."