Reflections of a Forensic Pathologist
I’ve had a busy and rewarding summer with many of my essays selected for publication. “Pandemic, the Game” discusses the popular board game created by Matt Leacock, and its lessons for our current world. It appears in The Closed Eye Open, Aldous Huxley themed issue, August, 2021. https://theclosedeyeopen.com/ripples-on-the-pond-ed-2/ “Stairwell” is a story of a woman’s murder and the husband’s searing […]
Duct tape has a benign beginning. Vesta Stoudt, who worked in a WWII ordinance factory, noticed flimsy closures on the ammunition boxes and recommended a stronger cloth tape. This led to the development of a polyethylene coated fabric strip by Johnson & Johnson. Designed to be torn by hand, no scissors needed, it is easy to apply and remove. The plastic […]
If you’re quiet, you can hear them munching and crunching. It happens when hundreds of them congregate for a feast of decomposing flesh. They are still juveniles at this voracious eating stage in their life cycle as flies. Initially, they are white specks laid by their mothers in wet, moist regions of abandoned human bodies — the eyes, the nose, […]
