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Goodbye, CatLoaf
My not-so-little arm warmer succumbed to kidney disease yesterday. When we adopted him from an acquaintance, she said his name was Shadow. We called him CatLoaf. We quickly surmised that he was called...
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Deserve’s Got Nothing to Do With It
“Deserve’s got nothing to do with it.” –William Munny, Unforgiven There is a lot of rage over people getting what they don’t deserve, and others not getting what they feel they do. Some writers...
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The Fear Index
I’ve written before about how crime is down but reporting is at an all time high. The news media, primarily television, has taken “if it bleeds it leads” to a whole new level in the United States....
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But We’re the Greatest, Aren’t We?
Just read the following AP article which rightly points out that the U.S. healthcare system is “not prepared” for an Ebola outbreak, or a SARS outbreak, or really any outbreak in particular. But the...
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Hope Through Stories. Freedom from Fear.
We can reenact the scene and argue what happened. Michael Brown was shot as he reached into the car, or he was 135 feet away. He grabbed the gun, or he had his hands up. Whichever you believe, the...
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11/9
Beer’s not gonna help but it can’t hurt. My story from Noir at the Bar: Trump edition will be published at The Flash Fiction Offensive this week. It’s called “Life During Wartime” and is based on...
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A visit to a haunted masonic temple for a sybaritic delights
In my family, men didn’t go to spas. Not even the uncle who managed gay bars for the mob. His “spa” was falling asleep on the floral print couch at my grandma’s house after Sunday dinner, because he...
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