There was a black speck in the sky, and the sun grew bright, like God had come to Earth. Too late they realized that it wasn’t the sun after all. © Copyright 2015 by Kevin Fraleigh.

The reason I believe in extraterrestrial life (in some form) is that I find it too depressing to think that out of all the trillions of planets in all the universes that are, we were the best that God could do. © Copyright 2015 by Kevin Fraleigh.

God is physics or physics is god, which one is it? The purpose of God is to create everything. The purpose of physics is to explain how everything was created. When God created everything he established immutable laws to govern nature. The purpose of physics is to not only codify…

Here’s something I hope you’ll like and will comment on, an excerpt from a novel I’m working on called The Last Pope of Antioch. Be sure to let me know what you think of it.  Thanks! Part One: The Red Convertible 1 The red convertible flew down the dusty, empty…

Last week the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists announced that the dreaded Doomsday Clock was moved to a minute closer to midnight.  For reasons you can read here, the Doomsday Clock now stands at five minutes to midnight.  Midnight being defined as the end to everything.  We have been closer of…

Although she regularly reads my blog, my wife, Malette, isn’t comfortable with the horror/fantasy genre.  She likes other things.  One of her favorite writers is Johanna Lindsey.  And that’s okay, different strokes for different folks, as they say. But there are times I’m envious of Leo Tolstoy whose wife, Sofia,…

In my blog over the past year I’ve discussed how the inspiration for a character or a character type is often drawn from real life.  Here is another instance.  At work, for the past few days I’ve been cleaning out filing cabinets, tearing through thousands of paper files, condemning the…

Yesterday I read an article that said that the Voyager I spacecraft, launched in 1979, is now 11 billion miles from the sun.  Eleven billion miles.  That’s 11,000,000,000 miles.  A very long way from home.  Douglas Adams in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy adds some perspective: “Space,” it says,…