Midnight Blue

Confession time. I have a rather large collection of music. I should explain for the younger readers, back in the day you had to purchase music recordings individually. One would save money and go to the record store and thumb through albums to buy a copy of the music you loved from your favorite artist....

Blue Guitar

Several men are sitting quietly, when one exits into the next room to retrieve something from a box. The box is warm, and the insides smell like candles. The man returns to hear someone tuning a guitar. He can hear the guitar player, but can barely see him behind a large brass horn with a...

Red Summer, White Masks and Crazy Blues

A deadly virus sweeps across the American nation and the world. There is no vaccine, no cure available. The only protections there are come as non-pharmaceutical strategies:  quarantine, hand washing, use of disinfectants, wearing protective masks and limitations of public gatherings. These restrictions are unpopular and applied unevenly. Volunteers making gauze masks There is violence...