Dennis Latham: Life, Fiction, and the Pursuit of Madness

The Kindle cover for Sudden Victims I received a great review from Horror World reviewer T.T. Zuma. Very few people have read this collection because I'm not exactly Mr. Promotion. The review was for sure the highlight of my week. I don't work on many short stories, so the majority of them are in this collection. Most of my stories have some basis in truth; either things I've done, had happen to me, witnessed, or places I've been. The review link is below. Sudden Victims Horror World Review I have six unfinished books right now, and I work on them at different times and not so much in any particular order. I'm putting the finishing touch on my solo singing act and practice five to six hours a day. Waiting for demo disks to return before I actively seek representation. A swing band contacted me off  one of the two demos I sent out, and I'm going to meet the leader this weekend. Still no sign of winter in the lower midwest. It's going to be almost 70...

The Crusader Moth (photo taken outside my kitchen window in 2006) They say if you see one, you are a powerful white light warrior against evil or doomed to be crazy. (I'll take the white light warrior part, please.) The Famous Campers Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, naturalist John Burroughs, and Harvey Firestone used to go on camping trips along the eastern coast. They brought a cook and five servants. A heavy truck carried their camping equipment, a refrigerator, and food. They would wander through small villages where Edison would often get them lost, but they brought an entire new concept to the world of camping. I visited the Edison house in Florida. They had light bulbs there that had been used daily since 1910 and still worked. Makes you wonder what happened in the process of manufacturing light bulbs because some don't last two weeks now. Could it be, uh, making money? Mark Twain quotes: "I believe our heavenly father invented me   because he was disappoin...

The joy of prescription meds can be shared by everyone. Ghosts I truly believe there is a parallel dimension that crosses into our lives at certain times and we have contacts from beyond. Things shift in the corners of our eyes. We may at times actually see what appears to be mumbling figures wondering in and out of places. But they are usually blurry and seem totally unreal in the scheme of life. It's kind of like dealing with DC politicians. ****** News Announcer Nightmare Name  Police are still trying to figure out why a 34-year-old mother committed suicide by leaping from her family's minivan on I-75 in Lockland on Monday. Lockland police on Tuesday identified the victim as Vijayalakshmi Comanagowda Kulkarni . I was going to watch the news to see if anyone could pronounce the name, but I later heard they kept it off the news because no one could pronounce the name. ****** Public Housing: Your Neighborhood, Not Mine (or) Do As I Say, Not As I Do. Th...