I finished a short story and submitted it to an anthology. It was accepted and I am rejoicing in that fact, even while I wonder if they took every story that came in. It’s a charming romance with a villain who must be Dealt With. Lots of roses, barnstorming, plane crashes, Rice Institute library, and [...]
Picture by James Clark Tidden, Villa d'Este, 1923. https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1223147/m2/1/high_res_d/HETAG_Newsletter_No7_201609_September_Houston_in_Europe.pdf And who is James Clark Tidden? In pursuit of a short story idea, I’ve been reading about Rice University’s early days. Rice had an architecture and art department right from the start (1912) and, right from the start, they seem to have behaved like the European [...]
