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Winter Musings   Winter Musing The trees are bare and ungiving Like the souls of sick minds, Their dead leaves floating in the…

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Believe It Or Not Believe It or Not! “It’s difficult…” “It’s also illegal…” “Can’t tell my wife, my kids, my in-laws, my friends…my country.”

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The Soul of a Dreamer

The Soul of a Dreamer

The Soul of a Dreamer or Play Me a Tune, Piano Man

With this post I get to show not only some of my ‘warts of longing and wanderlust’ but an abiding romanticism that has tagged along with me through my life. The Piano Bar Is symbolic of some younger years when I was going to live forever, a time when I could play out fantasies and dramatic ‘movie scenes’ of a lonely and desperate man, a time…

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Love and Consequence

Love and Consequence

“Action! Camera!” the director bellowed through the megaphone.

The two actors stared each into the other’s eyes for some seconds.

Finally, the male actor spoke: “What am I to do, Penny? These corny words are not the words I wish to speak to you…”

“Cut!” yelled the Director, Simon Foxwright, lifting his heavy body from the canvas chair, walking toward the actors, his…

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Flowers and Fate

Flowers and Fate

“Red or yellow roses, Sir?” the older lady in the flower shop asked.

The young man in his early thirties smiled and raised his brow. “Now, how did you know it was to be roses, Millie?” He knew her from a name tag.

“It’s the body language, young man. Your step, your face, the happy gleam in your eyes.”

“Really! I’m that obvious?”

“You’re that obvious,” she teasingly grinned, “plus…

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Reality and Truth

                Reality and Truth – An Imagined Discourse in a Democracy – Socrates – You say ‘the world is not fair’. How is the world not fair? Citizen – There is inequality in so many facets of our lives. Socrates – Why do you think that is so? Citizen – Because the wealthy control our lives. Socrates – Do the wealthy not create businesses and pay wages to workers? Citizen – Yes, of…

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There Must Be A Better Way

There Must Be A Better Way

There Must Be A Better Way

  “Hey, Man, this is great stuff! Wow! The sky’s amazing! Look at all the colors… Awesome, dude! What’s this stuff we’re doing?” A teenager named Beasley was speaking.

  Another teenager named Freeman spoke, “It’s sensimilla, bonehead, and those colors are natural colors this time of day. It’s not the sensimilla you’re feeling, and you just took your first two…

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From Italy With Love From Italy With Love I thought it was all over! There were two problems. My single engine plane coughed, sputtered, and acted like it was out of gas – but the tank was filled just twenty minutes before at the air park in Genoa.

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JESUS

  HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JESUS

  Though it seems likely you were born in April, the date of December 25 has become the date much of the world has designated as the day we celebrate your birth. Here in the United States, most of our citizens enjoy your birthday as a paid holiday. On your birthday, many of us celebrate by gift sharing with our family and friends, participating in a special tradition of…

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Love's Reunion

Love’s Reunion

Love’s Reunion

A stranger in this Balkan city of Podgorica I felt the cool but comfortable night breeze on my body. My leather jacket and heavy trousers sheltered me nicely in my walk to the Pod Volat Restaurant. Wisps of my thirty-five year old ebony hair gently waved to the people passing. A quite lovely lady with long dark flowing tresses looked me over carefully as she passed, raised her…

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Interview with prolific author Billy Chitwood

Interview with prolific author Billy Chitwood

Today I’m pleased to introduce Billy Chitwood, an author with an wide range of amazing books. Hello Billy. Thank you for being my guest today. Please tell us about your writing history. When…

Source: Interview with prolific author Billy Chitwood

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THE SYSTEM WAS RIGGED; EVERYONE KNEW IT

THE SYSTEM WAS RIGGED; EVERYONE KNEW IT

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Interview With Christoph Fischer

Interview With Christoph Fischer

Interview With Author Christoph Fischer

MY INTERVIEW OF CHRISTOPH FISCHER

  Welcome to my ‘Seat of Honor’, Christoph. Though we’ve never met, I feel as if we’ve been friends for many years. 

  Your writing has reached so many of us, and, with your generous support of other authors and your active role with #ASMSG (‘Authors Social Media Support Group’), many of us know of your active and hectic…

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Tarnished Vanity

Tarnished Vanity

It was an itch on my right cheek.

I scratched the itch.

Another itch came to my other cheek.

I scratched that itch.

Other itches came to the face near the eyes.

I scratched those itches.

I was sitting in a hotel bar with friends

The friends noticed my discomfort.

“Are you okay?” a friend asked.

“Excuse me, I must go,” I said.

I left the table and went to the Men’s Room.

I looked…

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Ripples

  Ripples 

      The lovely lady squinted as she stood on her penthouse balcony, grasped the iron railing and looked at the distant clouds hovering above the horizon.

Standing there in her long powdery blue night gown, her image portrayed a classic Princess-like profile with all the voluptuous and titillating curves that brought men to their knees. Her face was to cherish: lips full of the…

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A World I Once Knew

A World I Once Knew

  A World I Once Knew

 An Informal Thesis

Behind those stern faces in the faded picture above, there is a stoic acknowledgement of the times in which my Mama and Papa lived. Behind their stern expressions there are compassion and love. They likely didn’t know too much about cameras and picture-taking back then.

  How do I know about their compassion and love?

  They’re my paternal grandparents,…

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Time

  Dedicated to Caleb Pirtle lll

Time

The supreme commander of life

Defying all who would alter its

Steady ticking seconds

Of existence

Oh, would it but pause to

Deny a sinister plot

Deny the wrinkles

And sagging skin

Oh, would it but pause to

Stop the reasons

For wars and

Weeping children

Oh, would it but pause to

Give me one more

Chance at becoming

More than what I am

But, no, the ceaseless…

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