Jeff Andrus

This Memorial Day essay retells the most famous Flag raisings in U.S. history and salutes the Marines of uncommon valor who fought the Battle of Iwo Jima, arguably the bloodiest of World War II.

A tough ex-roadie has tastes for heavy metal and heavy drinking. He also lusts for a beautiful schizoid who is unfortunately into classical music and murder.

The essay examines the origin of the word "manned" and why it is the most appropriate in the English Language to describe the males and females who occupy and operate almost anything, including spacecraft.

I wish a cold winter on Osama and Berkeley, California.

A look back at Ma Bell, that greedy, monolithic bitch-queen of monopolies...until you compare her to cell phone technology and what passes for communication today. Then she comes across like a sweetheart who never lost her innocence.

My second crime novel published by Scribner is the source of this slightly skewed look at the entertainment industry past and present.

A short story about a modern police procedural that becomes a manhunt reminiscent of the Old West.

A short story based on television series idea that I pitched with Brenda Bell. Two career women run roughshod over a crew of malcontents selling shoddy merchandise for a shop-at-home channel that attracts a legion of weird callers and one stalker who mistakes packaging for love.

For all you culture vultures who read poetry.

A chronicle of a small group of people, a continent away from Ground Zero, who tried to do their part to avenge the terrorists attacks on America. To paraphrase Dennis Prager, whose daily radio program is syndicated through KRLA Communications Group, there are times, even bad times, when it is one's duty to be happy. Otherwise the bad guys win.