Brave Men Run

Well, my friends, here we are at the end of our journey with the Brave Men Run Podcast! Thanks for coming along… thanks for supporting the podcast with your comments, book, e-book, and MP3 CD audiobook purchases, and donations… and thanks for being so encouraging! As promised, this final episode features an original short story [...]

Thanks to the nine people who sent in nearly two dozen questions! I answer them all in this episode… … except for Rick Jackson’s question, which I somehow overlooked! I’m sorry, Rick! Rick wanted to know if I had any acting experience. The answer: I played Julius Caesar in a sixth grade production of an [...]

And so we come to the end of the reading of “Brave Men Run – A Novel of the Sovereign Era.” This is the end of the book, but not the end of the podcast! Check out what’s coming up, right after we dig into these last two chapters: Chapter Fifty Four: – “My name [...]

It’s the penultimate episode of the Brave Men Run Podcast! After this — one more episode and the book is finished! Let’s look at these chapters… Chapter Fifty: – “Post traumatic stress, or something like that.” More information on this disorder is here. – “Two Orange County sheriff’s deputies got behind him and held his arms.” These fine [...]

The aftermath of the battle at the cabin! Here goes… Chapter Forty Five: A little breathing room, here… Chapter Forty Six: – “…modified Ford Econoline van.” Recall from near the beginning of our story: Denver’s van uses a system of custom levers and hand triggers to control breaking and acceleration. – “They called it Project: Rancher.” The name of the project [...]

Hoo-boy! This is one action-packed, pulse-pounding, giant-sized episode! Dig it! Chapter Forty Two: – “…popping Bauhaus and Echo and the Bunnymen tapes in…” Bauhaus was one of the original “gothic” bands, and members Daniel Ash, David J., and Peter Murphy all had solo careers into the nineties. Echo and the Bunnymen played atmospheric jangle-pop with interesting, darkly [...]

It’s the not-so-calm before the storm, dear listeners! Let’s peek behind the curtain: Chapter Thirty Seven: – “Her tongue burned across mine, smooth and hot.” Lina’s tongue feels smooth to Nate’s because his is actually rough. Like a cat. He’s a weird kid, isn’t he? – “Lina found a couple of Rolling Stone magazines…” Might have been [...]

Gadzooks! A few short chapters makes this a mega-episode! Dig in! Chapter Thirty: – “…in Mr. Byrd’s third period Algebra class…” Actually had a math teacher in High School named Mr. Byrd. His son went to the school, too, which had to have been weird for the poor kid. Chapter Thirty One: – “I’m taking you out [...]

Lots of stuff in these three chapters! Dig in! Chapter Twenty Seven: – “…and we strode up to Carson Meunetti’s house…” Carson Meunetti has his origins in a short story I wrote in my Senior year of high school in creative writing class. In that tale, he was a kind of cross between Jim Morrison and [...]

Back again, dear listeners / readers, for another stack of notes and links from the Brave Men Run Podcast! Chapter Twenty Four: – “Abbeque Valley is a planned community in Orange County, in Southern California… The billionaires who designed the town did one cool thing, though. Most of the neighborhoods are broken up by these long, narrow [...]