Christmas With Conniff
Ahhh, once again, the Yuletide brings out the nostalgic in me. Christmases of old, back when I was a little kid—no cell phones, no internet, no Lena Dunham, you know, when things were so much...
Author: Ernie Mannix
Ernie Mannix is the author of the critically acclaimed Hollywood novel; Six Devils In The San Fernando Valley. He is also an award-winning film composer and avid model train collector.
‘Hot’ Original Fiction: Tango Lessons
Editor's note: Ermie Mannix returns to the pages of Phantom Sway with another episode in the life of his troubled hero Truman Morrow. Get to know Truman better in in Ernie's novel Six Devils in the...
Short Story: A Wavering Alcoholic Encounters Spirits in a New York Bar
In "A Tale of Alcoholism," a new short story by Ernie Mannix, a woman tempted to break 15 years of sobriety discovers that at the King Cole bar in New York City's St. Regis Hotel, the spirits...
Hail Caesar: A Simmering Black Comedy
Morality-plays in Hollywood are nothing new, even for the Coen brothers; the team that brought us the good-vs-evil of the period Tinseltown masterwork, Barton Fink. Their latest picture, Hail...