Thomas Wictor

Posts Tagged ‘The Cat Faced Ghost in the Rising Sun’

A first for me

May 20, 2014

I HATE commercials. The main reason is the music and the actors. Since I don’t watch TV, I see commercials only on the Internet. They drive me crazy. For whatever reason advertising companies use ukulele music or jinga-jinga-jinga acoustic guitar music or tinkly piano kindergarten music or smarmy Wal-Mart slop. And the actors are always…

 

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An excellent beginning

May 19, 2014

We all know that the National Security Agency listens to our phone calls. Today was especially hilarious as apparently the entire government domestic espionage apparatus was brought to bear on Tim and me. It was an excellent beginning to the writing of my next novel. As anticipated, this afternoon I received some government documents that…

 

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Remembering a protector

May 13, 2014

Currently I’m doing research for my next novel, constructing a life that never was. Or may have been. Who knows? Part of the novel I’m going to write takes place in Tyler, Texas, where I lived from 1972 to 1975. Even so, everything in the book is false. I made it all up. It’s just…

 

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Pteromerhanophobia

March 23, 2014

My name is Tom and I’m a pteromerhanophobic. Nothing has been able to cure me. That’s not really 100 percent accurate; we’ll get to that in a minute. But pteromerhanophobia is fear of flying. As a fifteen-year-old, I picked up Erika Jong’s novel Fear of Flying because I thought it would about…fear of flying. But…

 

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On the run with a Canadian

December 15, 2013

When I first arrived in Tokyo in September of 1985, I moved into a guest house. I got to know several of the long-term residents, one being an older Canadian woman named “Rachel.” Tall, slender, and elegant, she was…unnerving. She seemed wracked with pain, even though she had a good sense of humor and laughed…

 

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