Winter night
The Four Seasons Winter The second-floor window looks west over a moon-lit landscape, black forest the border to snow-swept fields intensifying the moon’s reflected light. Just above the SW horizon Mercury and Venus lie close. The nights have been clear and...
Winter morning
Early morning, December 12, 2014: The Town of Russell school bus, a veritable light show of blinking and flashing amber and red and strobe lights, flies past in the pre-dawn darkness. The temperature hovers either side of freezing. The forest, gray and white save...
Istria, February 2014, In the Morning
Istria, February 2014 In December and January, Rovinj sleeps. The days are overcast and rainy. The streets are quiet and empty. On the rare sunny day (or hour), the cafes on the square fill, and when the sun disappears, so too do the natives. On 1 February, one...2nd Installment: The Wisconsin Stories
Patrice publishes her first story: Burial As was Bereft, our previous short story publication, Burial will be offered free on Amazon.com for the five days (20-24 July 2013) during its publication month. Click on Burial on those dates and download it for free. “Robert...Featured Books
Ледоход/Spirit Falls (Dual Language Russian-English)
Ледоход/Spirit Falls provides a dual-language facing page paperback suitable for either Russian- or English-language students, the first novel in Robert Townsend's Long War Series.In 1947, the Soviet security services named the United States as 'the main enemy.’ The Cold War was joined. Four teens, born half-worlds apart, children of their nations' greatest generation, come of age in the 1950s, each in their small-town Eden, cast out to encounter one another on the front lines in the war for control of the imagination.
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