Stolen songs and strange behavior, Riley Shepard fits right in.

Riley Shepard sold shares in his "Encyclopedia of Folk Music" to multiple investors.

In 1977, I met my half-sister for the first time. She was seventeen, I was twelve.

© copyright 2019-2022 Stacya Silverman. All rights reserved. Like a child soldier, I was loyal to Riley beyond all reason. He was, in my...

Another half-brother.

I'm digging through my father's journal trying to remember what happened after we moved from the place where the woman was held hostage....

Photo by Thomas Schworer I grew up in a cloud of my father’s cigar smoke, listening to the tapping sounds from his Corona typewriter, the loud zipping from the return carriage. He smoked cigars constantly, except when he slept, or studied at the public library, Sante Fe High Grade, which came fifty cigars in a box with a lid. He kept extra cigars, the fat kind, overflowing in his shirt pocket with his lighter and several pens. He could go days without regular sleep, with no a

©Stacya Shepard Silverman Riley Shepard ’s Promise 2021 All Rights Reserved Today is Saturday, March 20, 2021. Deaths from the...

Today is Sunday, February 7th. I heard something the other day about how when a death toll reaches a certain number, people begin to...

Today is Sunday, January 31, 2021. 30 million of 50 million vaccines have been distributed. There are three strains of the new virus,...