by Vincent McCaffrey | Sep 19, 2023 | Poetry
Faced with a wood—not an imposing wood or a grand wood, mostly oak, pine and maple, Simple trees, gray in the twilight beneath. A second growth on old farm land, Now reduced to the mere limits of a backyard, and the margin of sight from a patio, I am confronted with a...
by Vincent McCaffrey | Aug 30, 2023 | Blog, Poetry
What appeared to be a square of moonlight upon the floor, As I stepped forward with bare foot to see, Turned out to be a fallen pillow in the dark, And I was once again reminded of the magic of pillows, As well as the need of high windows and what can be seen there,...
by Vincent McCaffrey | Dec 20, 2022 | Blog, Novel in Progress, Novels, The Invention of Man
In love, but broke, the sixty-eight-year-old bookseller, Michael McGeraughty, has converted a fifty-year-old camper-trailer to a small bookshop of about 1500 volumes, to be pulled by his thirty-year-old pick-up truck. His idea is to be a modern-day ‘book peddler’ in...
by Vincent McCaffrey | Nov 21, 2022 | Blog, Essays
In ancient times, using a pen name, I wrote a series of short-short stories for use as one-page advertisements, under the heading ‘An annotated browser,’ to promote the shop. These are a few examples. Counterpane It is...
by Vincent McCaffrey | Jun 10, 2021 | Blog
Biedermeier: his identity, both mistaken and true is now available in paperback and Kindle from the great and powerful Amazon. From the back cover: Otto Biedermeier, the Hollywood icon and B-movie legend, was murdered by his wife, Mysterious Circumstances. Tom Lenz, a...
