Excerpt from High Ground, copyright 2017 by Richard Authier Lee Esther spent her day wandering rooms populated by her past. She walked through the sitting rooms and foyer, up the staircase to the library, past Father’s den and the scandalous marble bust of Mother carved by the handsome young Italian hired to sculpt Lion’s Gate. Mother … More Goya Is Dead

Just this fall, United States officials said they fear a directed energy or acoustic device has been used to disorient and perhaps to injure more than twenty U.S. Embassy personnel in Havana. The events harken back four decades to a well-documented use of such devices by the Soviets against the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. The … More U.S. Embassy Irradiated in Cuba?

Excerpt from High Ground, copyright 2017 by Richard Authier Lee “She reads like a sixth-grade boy,” the sniveling Principal Arnold Parsons had said about her—God rest his soul—-an insult nestled in a compliment like a rock in a raisin cookie. “Yes, Madam, an exceptional mind for a young lady,” he would coo. “She’ll make a fine … More She Reads Like A Sixth Grade Boy

A two-year study conducted in 2016 found increased brain tumors in rats exposed to the same type of radiation produced by cell phones. While the amount of radiation the rats were subjected to in the tests was extreme, compared to human cell phone exposure, the results fly in the face of previous assertions that the … More Cell Phones Are Safe. Aren’t they?

Excerpt from High Ground, copyright 2017 by Richard Authier Lee First a thin whistling, then angry buzzing, then waves came like the tide, washing over black iron fence and surging through parlor walls. Searing, unseen swells washed across marble floors, poured down stairs and seeped everywhere but the pantry and kitchen. Esther clutched her diary to … More Esther