This is a collection of articles I had published in newspapers and magazines and short stories I wrote over the years.
The newspaper and magazine articles cover topics from medical issues of microbiology and infectious disease to travelogues and documentaries on Stone Age megalithic sites in England, Ireland and Brittany.
The short stories cover a broad range of genre, from science fiction, to travel adventures, to writing adventures, to Alberta history and other.
Excerpt
“Fever represents a universal, ancient and beneficial response to infection. The fact that fever, despite it’s enormous energy requirement is found a part of the immune response in all mammals strongly suggests that fever has critical evolutionary value.”
From an article published in Common Ground 2010
“Captain Parker poised his scalpel over the young corpse and made an incision down the center of the chest. Wresting the rib cage open, he exposed the chest cavity. What they saw was shocking. ... Chest cavity filled with fluid, lungs blue and swollen...”
From a short story, Dance with a Spanish Lady. An excerpt from my novel, The Devil’s Ruse
'Coruscated Confabulations' is a collection of stories and experiences, most of which took place in prior decades. They are taken from or based upon real events, with a certain admixture of fictional embellishments.
My second book is about a boy who has Asperger's Syndrome and is bullied to the point to where he shoots up his school. I have divided the excerpts from it into three parts: Before, during and after the shooting.
