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Lay It Down

People love John Samson Fellows’s music. He doesn’t want to make it anymore.

Out Around the Bay

When Wanda bought the house, she didn’t imagine that anyone in the community would recognize that she and Lynn were queer.

The Kitchen Reno

A new series in which the author witnesses and reports on the proceedings at Small Claims court. The case here described is real, though names have been changed and some details and times condensed.

The Road to Tanga

In the shadows of Mt. Kilimanjaro, the author of The Magic of Saida and The Assassin's Song discovers a landscape haunted by traces of the First World War's East Africa campaign. Here, two empires clashed, drawing the region's peoples into the bloody vortex that was then consuming Europe. Though hardly discussed today, the fighting altered the course of a nation.