FRANKLYN C. THOMAS

A few weeks back, I went to Downtown Seattle with my niece and my girlfriend for a night out. It had been a long week, and we all needed...

Winter had come to the Northwest. Seattle spent a couple of weeks as the epicenter for cold winds and weather that I haven’t seen in...

A man with a taste for killing young women finds his world upended by two inconvenient situations with women. One of them is the...

We’ll start with a disclaimer; when it comes to drinking, I’m a lightweight. I know, I know, it seems counterintuitive given my size—I’m...

So, here we are. We’ve made it through 2018, and into the new year mostly intact. I even waited a day before posting just to make sure...

A teenage girl from Kansas and her pet are swept up in a tornado and deposited in a magical land where, along with a band of misfits,...

Hey all! Well, the move is (finally) done, and all the boxes are empty. Yep, we’ve settled in! To recap, I left the cozy confines of...

Over the last couple of years, I’ve become a fan of Chris Pavone. I’ve worked backward through his catalog, starting with his most...

Welp, another year passed. This one was quieter than most, especially on the writing front. Continued editing efforts and a new...

This is going to be a strange and belated 9/11 blog post. Instead of a sad and sappy ode to a city and a building that no high schooler...

The staccato tap of the snare and the hiss of the cymbals come through my car stereo on the way to work, and I smile and drum my fingers...

So? How was your summer? Mine wasn’t as productive as I wanted. I spent too much time working the main job, and I pulled quite a few...

When I’m not writing, I work in a sleep lab as a sleep tech. Well, officially, I work in a Sleep Disorders Center as a Polysomnographic...

It happens every so often. Life gets in the way. You get busy with work, or relationships. It’s summer, you find other things to do. ...

Father’s Day was a couple of weekends ago, and it’s a big deal because a sizeable number of my friends celebrated it for the first time....

I should start by stating that I’m a longtime fan of Christopher Moore. I was in Hudson News at JFK Airport in 2007 when I stumbled onto...

Hey, everybody! Welcome back! May is in full swing, and Spring is alive. Flowers have bloomed, the trees have filled in their leafy...

For years, I was a “pantser.” I would go into a story with the bare minimum—a title, maybe an opening line, or some vague idea of what my...

Spring is here! Well, theoretically, anyway. It’s still a bit chilly in Northwest Washington, and some parts of the country still have...

Aside from the freezing temperatures, the icy roads, the short daylight hours, and the intermittent snow, rain, and hail (seriously,...