Illuminations

Loving Anna

SCHOOL MUST BE OVER. I hear the front door slam mid-afternoon, followed by the stomp of footsteps as Anna seeks me out. Unfortunately, the odor of melting spray starch leaves me all too easy to find. Read More...

From The MHP Team

Beast Mode

Beast Mode. We all have one—a way of reacting to the world that does not involve higher-order, logical processing capacities, nor does it draw upon loving compassion for guidance. This level of reactivity conjures up a survival instinct far more primitive, and it triggers violent behaviors that are far more primal. Read More...

Hilton Ratcliffe is Skeptical | Muse Harbor author Hilton Ratcliffe doesn’t shy away from controversy. In fact, the South African astrophysicist is quite certain that little of what we perceive about the cosmos is, in reality, reality. Discover Mr. Ratcliffe's fabulously heretical beliefs and decide for yourself. Are black holes real...or merely an illusion propagated by a foundering scientific principle? Read More...

By now you're probably aware that I love dialogue... However, after spilling countless buckets of digital ink extolling the virtues of dialogue, I'm here to reveal dialogue's seedy underbelly, its subversive or toxic presence in any novel. It's a tool, after all. And one doesn't hammer nails with a hacksaw. Because, yes, misguided dialogue can cause writers a world of hurt. Read More...