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“Top Of The World, Ma,” Cagney in “White Heat.”
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I’ve had little time to post a blog until now. Why? Down to a Sunless Sea has won an Indie Excellence FINALIST Book Award. It it also placed as a semi-finalist for the Reader Views Literary Awards. So, I composed a pr letter and forwarded the news to reviewers, bloggers and friends. This Monday morning I was […]
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Land And Marbles
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It was an aimless game with a competitive edge to it, much like the incessant, monotonous drive of Monopoly played for long Saturday afternoons. It whiled away the time and required some finesse with a pocketknife; we all carried them in the 50s, as much a symbol of maturity as of masculinity, symbolic of our […]
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A Drop More, Please
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On the one hand, if we are somewhat aware, up and running, the corner cut man having restored some life in us, we struggle to put off being conditioned. While we struggle, as we haltingly catch our breath, we walk into some awareness, some sense of self that happily creates doubt and dissonance in us so […]
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A Long Draft of Lemmonade
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To be free to agonize is better to me than not to be free, enjoying all the conditional glut a market economy can afford. Flick on the tube, stand 20 paces away, fine tune your mind and what do you behold: pollution. I was in Target the other night browsing for a sunshade to ward […]