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When Were Dogs First Domesticated? Ask The Qaraq and the Maya Factor

The story of the first two dogs to be tamed by cave people.

Review: S.A. Chakraborty’s Daevabad Trilogy | Stephen Weinstock

Review: S.A. Chakraborty’s Daevabad Trilogy — A Fantasy Rooted in Ancient Power

When I learned of the Daevabad Trilogy, I was easily attracted to it.

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The Blue Alhambra Photo

Over the years I have been attached to a photographic image that means the world to me.

Immortality, Anyone?

The Reincarnation Chronicles takes immortality for a given.

Time Travel is the New Space Travel

Einstein messed everything up!

A Movable Golden Age History

Tracking this idea while working on several books at once.

A Fantasy Winter’s Tale of Denial

After a year of the pandemic, a response to the dead of winter.

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Fashion Week Flash Fiction

In honor of Fashion Week 2019, a tale about pre-historic fashionistas.

Halloween Fiction: Aapep, Demon of Darkness and Chaos

A tale for a Halloween treat. A Pyramid tomb thief finds family ghosts, a demonic snake, and a floating talisman.

Magical Places, in History and Forever

My heart is full of wondrous places.

A Thousand Years of Solicitude

My first case of writer’s block, a scam from a vanity press, and three quagmirish slowdowns — I love writing!

How Islam Rejected and then Embraced Fiction

Arabic fiction was outlawed at the start of Islam, but the courts slowly accepted works like 1001 Nights.