Montana Voice

Enzi waits for Mr. 'XX' with a loaded .45 and a bag of potato chips.  The conclusion of The Aether and the Lie,  a story of greed, art, and murder.  

Enzi makes a decision and buys a brick from Pascal. The Aether and the Lie is a story of greed, art, and murder.  1911 is a name for a handgun. 

The Aether and the Lie is a story of greed, art, and murder. How many deaths does it take to re-open a back door?  Enzi asks Pascal for help. Iteration means to repeat and repeat and ... 

The thin detective looks for connections, while Enzi finds one between Tsai and his ancestors who died in Butte. A story of murder, greed, and math.

Another murder, another bag of money, a change of plans. The Aether and the Lie: A billion-dollar data heist, a jilted artist, a double murder, and a drifting math genius.

Pascal  tells a story about a drunk ballerina and an arsonist. Then Enzi visits Kaori in jail.

Enzi's hack of the SLAM network is discovered, and he wants to give the money back. A story of greed, loneliness, murders, and the motivations behind the crimes.

Pascal, the bondsman, does not believe Enzie, but then he makes a grim discovery.

In Seattle, Kaori shows that she too is hiding something.

Enzi and Kaori travel to Seattle,  where Enzi meets with SLAM programmers who have noticed 'something odd' in Enzi's code.

Enzi buries half a million dollars in the Rattlesnake mountains, and then travels to Seattle with Kaori. With instructions on how to make a treasure map.

Part five of "The Lie."  Money. A story about heartbreak, art, murder, and motivations. Inspired by the true story of the multi-billion-dollar fraud and collapse of WorldCom.

Part four  of "The Lie"  - Helen.  A story about heartbreak, art, murder, and motivations. Inspired by the multi-billion dollar fraud that caused the collapse of WorldCom. 

Part three of  "The Lie." In NYC.  Inspired by the collapse of WorldCom. A story about heartbreak, art, murder, a billion dollar heist, and the motivations behind the crimes. The story is told by a dyslexic drifter, who accidentally became a computer coder, and then was recruited into hacking a global financial network. He also falls in love, more than once, with the wrong girl. 

Chapter two of The Lie. A story about heartbreak, art, murder, a billion dollar heist, and the motivations behind the crimes. The story is told by a dyslexic drifter, who accidentally became a computer coder, and then was recruited into hacking a global financial network. He also falls in love, more than once, with the wrong girl.

A story about heartbreak, art, murder, and a Billion dollar heist. The Lie is told by a dyslexic drifter, who accidentally becomes a computer coder,  then is recruited into hacking a global financial network. He also falls in love, more than once, with the wrong girl.

If you want to understand people, look at ants with sugar. Everything is connected. Two Bandits is part of the story, Absurd and Vast.

Absurd and Vast is a story about a diamond mine in the arctic, a world-wide cartel, greed, revenge and peace. The words were hand written in reporter notebooks, and those notebooks have been sitting quietly for years. This is chapter one.

A story about a teacher, a student, and how it is never too late to learn or to start over.

A 10 minute story about where we all have come from and most of us hope to go.

A gritty Missoula love story story. “The west left him alone. Oil fields, ranches or highway work, there were always places to stay for a month or a season where the rents were cheap and the rooms quiet. The fringes of boom towns were the best. Empty oil barrels and scrap lumber in fields next to the weekly-rent motels, and employers who paid with cash. ” - with guest guitar by Eric Forrest Hutchins.

A runaway’s story of love and loss. “I find her most in solitary places, along the Blackfoot river in autumn, where red river rocks sparkle in the low water and dark trout pretend to be shadows.”

A true story about a murder that happened in a Missoula 4B's restaurant 30 years ago, a hungry visitor, a stolen truck, and some advise about listening to whispered advise.

Walker sees the ocean for the first time, and he meets two children who see snow for their first time.

Another Montana love story. Originally Published in Redbook magazine as "Letter To My Daughter." It was spring. Snow in the mornings, rain in the afternoon, stars at night. You must see a Montana spring someday. The valleys turn green while the mountains are still white. The rivers become loud with fast water. The blossoming cottonwoods, the wildflowers -- all the smells -- infect the air with a good madness.

Wildhorse Island, a Montana story.

What happens when a young drifter, who has just gotten out of jail, walks along the Rio Grande and meets a troubled rancher.