New Friends, Start Here
Welcome to JKTalla.
This place was built slowly.
I used materials made from stories, music, road miles, memory, loss, sea air, old photographs, and the belief that quieter voices still matter.
If you’re new here, thank you.
This is the best place to begin.
Short stories, which are the heart of it. One free to everyone, changed every month, and a great many more in the Story Vault.
Poetry, when it arrives, and After Hours for grown-ups who like the lights lower.
Children's Stories, written for the under-sixes and meant to be read out loud. A hedgehog family called the Hoggs, eight hoglets, and a great deal of trouble.
More than eighty original songs. Closer to short stories with a tune than to anything you would call background music.
Three books, over on Amazon.
And a classic car blog I write with my son Philip, covering shows on both sides of the Atlantic.
If you'd like to start with a story...
Here is just one of them to begin your journey.
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The Boy at the Edge of the Sea
A story about loneliness, tides, and the strange people waiting at the distant edge of life.
Click image to read story
The Music Room
The song on this page is only a sample.
Inside the Music Room you'll find road songs, sea songs, love songs, stories set to music, and the occasional late-night conversation with a guitar.
Take a look around.
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New York (The Single)
If you've ever fallen in love with a city that didn't know your name, this song may feel familiar.
The Studio Lounge
Listen, and you get the person behind the site.
Big Sur
Becoming a member
A good deal of what I write is free and will stay free. The homepage always has a story that costs nothing, and I change it every month.
The rest lives behind a membership. $5 a month, or $30 for the year.
That opens the Story Vault, which holds the bulk of my fiction. It also unlocks the music, three downloads a month, while everyone else pays a dollar per song. It brings the members-only story that goes with each track. And it gets you new work before anyone else sees it.
Membership runs through my Substack, and paying subscribers there become JKTalla members automatically. One payment, both doors.
Thank you for visiting.
The latch is always open.