B. James Wilson

  • The Last of the Great Flying Boats: Farewell to the Philippine Mars

    There is a particular kind of grief that comes when an era ends not with a bang but with the quiet settling of a hull onto still water for the last time. On February 10th of 2025, the Philippine Mars, the last of the working flying boats in the world, made her final flight, touching…

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  • Characters Who Devoured Their Creators

    There is a peculiar hazard in the novelist’s trade, one that no apprenticeship in the craft quite prepares a writer to face: the creation that outlives its usefulness. Every author who has spent years in the company of a character knows the intimacy of that arrangement. The interior monologue, the tics of speech, the way…

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  • Bleak Sabbath

    I try to imagine what it must have been like, that Passover Sabbath 2000 years ago, how His disciples must have felt; how His Mother must have felt. There was no Sader that Friday night, as the Sabbath began. Rather, John, Joseph of Arimathea, Mary His mother, and Mary Magdalene, along with a few others,…

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  • Crazy Ants

    They call them crazy ants. Tiny little things, almost invisible. If they ever infest your home you’ll understand why the name. Any disturbance near them sends them into wild frenzies of meaningless activity. Dashing about in circles, running into one another, looking like a scene from Keystone Cops. Behind the madness, however, lies a genius…

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  • Meet Rick Townsend: A Man Haunted by Two Worlds

    Rick Townsend made his fortune pulling gold from the deep. He is a legendary salvor who recovered a billion-dollar treasure from a Spanish galleon sought for centuries by many before him. Some tried to take the treasure from him, even using darkness for cover, but they failed. Rick is familiar with darkness. The darkness he…

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