A mariner sailing from BC’s Douglas Channel to Haida Gwaii is seduced by mysterious lights on Hecate Stait, not knowing a seductive monster lurks off Aranzazu Banks.
My short story Aranzazu Banks appears in the new anthology of Canadian horror and magic realism Canadian Dreadful edited by David Torcher and published by Dark Dragon.
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As I continue to work on my book on the British anti-slavery West Africa Squadron, and the role of my fourth great grandfather William Pennell, who spied on the Portuguese and Brazilian slave trade. Inspired by the indigenous people of Canada, I wrote a draft chapter about the Doctrine of Discovery, which authorized European colonialism […]
One mistake, a blunder, can sink an otherwise excellent documentary.The documentary was Athens Birth of Democracy, which I watched the premier when it was broadcast on PBS Nova, on Wednesday, April 29, 2026. ( Video geoblocked on the website) The blunder was this sentence which refers to the Athenian navy and how citizen rowers helped […]
Hunting the Archangel convoy in 1813 (Long read) Just before midnight on July 19, 1813, at about 71 degrees north latitude, in the Barents Sea, north of Norway’s Cape North, above the Arctic Circle, the midnight sun was low and near the horizon as the United States Navy frigate, USS President, 44 guns, Commodore John Rodgers, set […]
