David Stone
Founder & Euro Editor
Navigating Apps with Changes in Memory: Join Our Study
December 2, 2025
Weill Cornell Medicine seeks older adults with mild memory loss for a study on improving navigation apps. Participation is valuable,...
Ultimate Reality All Of It
Ultimate reality, all of it… Life surprises. Surprises are sparks. (An excerpt from Amazing Truths About Conscious Awareness) By David Stone Rain falls from a sunny sky. Streets and sidewalks are speckled. You look up. A small, ragged, roiling cluster of…
Traveling Without A Passport – Free Chapter
San Francisco, March 1976 On the morning after I moved into my apartment on Ashbury, wet snow dropped over parts of San Francisco, mostly on Portrero Hill, the boyhood neighborhood of O. J. Simpson. It was an event I was…
Is It Always a Love Story?
Is It Always a Love Story? Chapter One On the day I came home from the war — a phrase still tossed around like iceberg lettuce in the cultural salad, in spite of its saturation — the shock was…
The Garden of What Was and Was Not
November 22, 1963 I generally enjoyed Miss Izak’s class, brightened as it was by her effervescence, even though I was failing, just as I’d previously failed Latin. Gene, a born smart ass, and Billy, his frequent target, were involved…
The Witch Next Door
by David Stone Holy Shit Christmas Eve, snow finally fell from an infinitely gray overcast, hovering since dawn and hanging motionless into the afternoon. Still coming down hard after dark, it resolved the village below us in a pinkish…
What If You Died Right Now…?
What is you died right now…? Meditators say they’ve had out of body experiences, giving them insights into the other, spiritual side. But are they complete? Do they really tell us about life after death…? By David Stone Assorted Ideas,…
1966: The Garden of What Was and Was Not
In Binghamton, March 1966 Here is what finally became of Ginny or, I should say, the parallel paths we once shared, then separated. (Following is an excerpt from The Garden of What Was and Was Not.) In America, the…
Funny Music Sample Chapter
…a sample chapter from Funny Music by David Stone Maggie was waiting at home. I had to bring her car back soon. She’d accepted responsibility for driving me to the bus station, the dumpy, neglected art deco place that still lit…
Fusible Links: Sex & Civil Rights in a Small Town
Sex and Civil Rights in a Small Town, 1966 “Well,” Bruce announced, “on Monday, we’ll have to go out to looking for jobs, but first, I’m going to show you how to have a good time. We’ll go over to…
Stories from the End of the World
Things I Learned While Insane From a Novel by David Stone …from After Peter: Stories from the End of the World I guess I’d better clarify where I was coming from and clear up the mystery of why it…
David Stone
Founder & Euro Editor