Chris F. Holm's The Lizard’s Ardent Uniform

"The Lizard’s Ardent Uniform" by Chris F. Holm is online at Cole Montegue's The Fall Creek Review. This short story is from Veridical Dreams, Vol. I that I had the pleasure to edit.

Latest Longmire Review (Updated With My Possible VERY Big Goof!)

My review of last night's Longmire episode called "Counting Coup." Update: In the comments thread some reviewers are letting me know David Ridges didn't die. After viewing the DVR it looks like they're correct. And I hope that's true because I want Branch to get his revenge against The White Warrior.

Hero of Mine

A Visit With Wayne D. Dundee.

Harvest

“Harvest” picks up where we left off with Walt Longmire (Robert Taylor) receiving care for a flesh wound and Vic looking genuinely drained from her hellish experience as a captive.

When Walt and Vic hugged in the hospital, my wife said to me, “I can see them as a couple,” and I had to finally agree. The relationship happens in Craig Johnson's series of novels from which the show originates, and it seems like it’s time on the TV series. But, like water in a dam rising to the occasion, we are kept waiting again, because Vic’s husband Sean (Michael Mosley) has given her an ultimatum to quit her job in two weeks or they’re done. When Branch Connally (Bailey Chase) broke into Vic’s house in last week's episode, I was thinking, you’re going to be in a world of hurt when she finds out. Sure enough, in this episode, Vic (Katee Sackhoff) tears Branch a new one and lays everything wide open.

My full review, of the latest Longmire episode, can be found at Criminal Element.

The Eye

“The theme of The Eye is the pursuit of an investigation which leads the protagonist through a hell of mirrors and ends in the merging of twin images.” That plot description is from Vladimir Nabokov’s own foreword to the 1965 English publication of The Eye. The protagonist Mr. Nabokov spoke of is a Russian émigré (a common theme in his body of work) living in Berlin and working as a tutor for two young boys in whose home he lodges. An attractive friend of the family, Matilda, visits, and he starts an illicit affair with the married woman. Her husband finds out and beats the tutor in front of the young pupils. Agonized from shame, the tutor packs his bags and leaves. He finds another room, then shoots himself in the heart with a revolver.

After death, he learns his problems are only just beginning...

My article on Vladimir Nabokov's The Eye is live at Criminal Element.

Population 25

Vic in some serious trouble in “Population 25." My review at Criminal Element.

The Great Beyond

Reports Of My Death Can’t Be Trusted

"Reports of My Death" Can’t Be Trusted.

When Cowboys and Sci-Fi Collide

The Phantom Empire starring Gene Autry is widely regarded as the first mash-up between Western and science fiction on the big screen. From the singing cowboy to recent films like Cowboys and Aliens, here are seven titles offering up androids and spaceships mixed with six-shooters and stagecoaches.

From the Western Frontier to the Final Frontier: When Cowboys and Sci-Fi Collide at Criminal Element.

Wanted Man

“If you do the job right, Walt, by the time you put down your sheriff’s badge, you’re a wanted man.” —Lucian Connally.

Longmire: 3.05 review by Edward A. Grainger.