Steve's Writing

I was so naive .   I might have expected language challenges if we had moved to, say, Scotland. But not from a move within the USA. I had su...

In J. R. R. Tolkien’s  The Hobbit  and  The Lord of the Rings  trilogy, several characters fight over a magical ring that doesn’t belong to ...

I wasn’t supposed to read it.  I was 11 years old and exploring under the eaves in our attic when I found  A Stone for Danny Fisher  by Haro...

In a fictional story I’ve considered writing, the three Bethany siblings—Jesus’ friends Mary, Martha, and Lazarus—would be the children of w...

For a while, I was a bank examiner. It was a hard job.  We worked day and night. Days, we were in banks examining them. Nights and weekends,...