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April is National Poetry Month! Here is another Matthew Van Der Boot inspired poem. Jesse’s Girl (not that one by Rick Springfield) She’s quiet for so long you suspect she’s fallen asleep. The night air is cool against your face and you breathe it in, slowly filling your lungs with the sweet, earthy smell of […]

April is National Poetry Month! Here is another Matthew Van Der Boot inspired poem. Hot for Teacher (not that one by Van Halen) Unsuited limbs and appointments? What did she just say? …much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre… You don’t remember reading that yesterday. …and not a little of […]

April is National Poetry Month! Here is another Matthew Van Der Boot inspired poem. Little Red Corvette (not that one by Prince) The police arrive, multiple cars. No, you didn’t know the victim. No, you didn’t see what happened. Yes, you did hear the gunshots and see the vehicle speed away. Color and make? Dark, […]

April is National Poetry Month! Here is some more Matthew Van Der Boot inspired poetry. Runnin’ with the Devil (not that one by Van Halen) “I mean, what does a rapist look like anyway?” He gives a toothy grin and runs the palm of his hand over the sandpaper stubble of his shaved head. “In […]

April is National Poetry Month! And to celebrate, I’ll be releasing some Matthew Van Der Boot inspired poetry. Here’s one to get things started. Brown Eyed Girl (not that one by Van Morrison) She’s cute enough, with light hazel eyes and pale-blonde hair, but you have your type and it’s just not her. Yours is […]

I may have shared this before, but here it is anyway. In high school there was this girl I really, really liked, but she had a boyfriend, so, we talked—a lot. I would lend her some science fiction and fantasy books to read and one day when she returned a paperback (A Spell for Chameleon […]

I just published Episode 60 of my ongoing Matthew Van Der Boot series! For those of you unfamiliar, the series is written in hypertext fiction, which is essentially a modern version of those “Choose Your Own Adventure” books that were popular in the 80s. However, my story leans more toward YA Adventure/Romance and less toward […]

As the fourth born in my family, by the time I entered high school, my brother Wayne was a senior, my other brother Steven was a junior, and our oldest sister, Karen, had already graduated two years earlier. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the music I grew up with as a kid and […]

She wants to borrow one of your books? Really? Who knew that’s how your nerdy-ass would get a girl? Matthew’s little sister, Angie in Episode 41 of The Misadventures of Matthew Van Der Boot It’s a sad fact that teens today just don’t read as much as they did when I was their age, at […]

1982, my freshman year of high school, Rush was my band. I listened to every one of their albums and knew the lyrics to all of their songs – and not just popular titles like “Tom Sawyer,” “Spirit of the Radio,” or “Working Man,” but even the obscure ones like “Rivendell,” “Xanadu,” and “The Temples […]