Asher Black is an author, musician, and karateka who writes entirely outdoors in the hills and hollows of the Catskill Mountains or the tree-lined neighborhood where Walt Whitman wrote Leaves of Grass while editing the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. A polymath artist with degrees in History and Educational Psychology, Asher was Chief Editor of MYTHOLOG and Managing Editor of The Green Man Review. His literary writing has appeared in Saturday Evening Post, Isele, Eclectica, and elsewhere. He creates vivid