Felix Detrolio

• Jul-2015
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I have had a great deal of trouble with this page. More than a man who has made his living with words should have. But it has been trouble nonetheless. I was able to get partially past the trouble when I recalled Faulkner and his admission to his aun...

• Feb-2014
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Everything he recalled was like a newsreel, and the narrator was someone he did not know - a voice in the back of his head making sure he saw all the details of each recollection. Some of them made him smile, some made him angry. Those of Roy Acton m...

• Feb-2014
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Jeremiah Robinson, having once been a preacher, of the fire and brimstone type, it is not surprising, nor unusual, that after the hanging he was allowed to give the eulogy at the burial of Ephrom Jeffries, and true to character it was a passionate an...

• Jan-2014
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Johnny Angel enters the parking lot of the Apple Orchard Inn, an exclusive cocktail lounge in the wealthiest section of Sayberry, disheveled in dress and with a grim purposefulness in his eyes. He is here to meet his brother, Aaron, and his wife, Glo...

• May-2010
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It was a Saturday, I flew home on Sunday. On Monday I asked a colleague at work just how I might go about dating an old manuscript. He told me call Professor Mulligan, at New York University and give his name. I did so and the professor said he could...

• Feb-2010
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Irishka in the Morning, a passionate weaving of love, betrayal, crime and eventual redemption. It is the story of a Russian immigrant, a woman in search of herself - a fallen Olympic hero who provides the means for her to find her truth - and the hor...