The Odyssey of Jim

another preview of the novel What Matters ***          This is the scene: it’s a 100 degree day and Jim is sitting on a bench in the shade at a bus stop at Riverview, Kansas, where there has not been a river since the 1930’s...

Whatever it takes

a journal in the form of a novel  By Vincent McCaffrey Copyright 2025 / 2026 ***          At the center of the known universe is the small town of Rumford, New Hampshire, once a farming hub. The original center of this town...

Whatever it takes a journal in the form of a novel  By Vincent McCaffrey Copyright 2025 / 2026 ***          At the center of the known universe is the small town of Rumford, New Hampshire, once a farming hub. The original...

Whale piss

[A chapter of the current project, a novel called ‘What Matters’]          I awoke with the lifejacket pushed up beneath my chin by the water—adrift in the ocean, in the midst of a puddle of whale piss, so it wasn’t water at...