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This is where you will find short stories, personal essays, and guest posts.  Family and friends and the ordinary business of life are the inspiration for this section.

Short Fiction – Tag Along (for Anthony Bourdain)

Short Fiction – Tag Along (for Anthony Bourdain)

  I wrote this story some time ago.  I did not know it then but Anthony Bourdain must have been my inspiration.  He brought out the voyeur in all of us, in a good way.  He taught us about food, life, and humanity.  Anyone who knows his work will have a piece of...

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The Kid Who Loved His Grandparents So Much by Carter Jones

The Kid Who Loved His Grandparents So Much by Carter Jones

Carter Jones is nine years old.  This is his first story.   Once there was a boy, a young boy, who lived with his family in a big valley.  He loved his family but he forgot how much they loved him.  He wanted to run away and live with his grandparents.  He was...

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Short Fiction – Travelling to Oaxaca Ending

Short Fiction – Travelling to Oaxaca Ending

Travelling to Oaxaca is a short story in five parts.  The earlier parts can be found here: Part I Part II Part III Part IV   The world is beautiful and outside there is no salvation. Albert Camus   At my age I have to avoid repeating myself.  I think I told...

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Short Fiction – Travelling to Oaxaca Part IV

Short Fiction – Travelling to Oaxaca Part IV

  Read PART I and PART 2 and Part 3   Here we go round the prickly pear Prickly pear prickly pear Here we go round the prickly pear At five o'clock in the morning.   If I could start over, I’d do just the same.  I am, after all, who I am and not in a...

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Short Fiction – Travelling to Oaxaca Part III

Short Fiction – Travelling to Oaxaca Part III

Read  PART I  and  PART 2   ¡Dios mío, Dios mío!, ¿por qué me has abandonado? [My God, my God, Why hast Thou forsaken me?]   “Hello Mr. Jeffrey Farmer.” There she was, irresistible smile, shiny black straight hair hanging over the strap of her Xochitl...

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Short Fiction – Travelling to Oaxaca Part II

Short Fiction – Travelling to Oaxaca Part II

  Read Part I HERE   The voice of honest indignation is the voice of God.   Suddenly, I found myself surrounded by people I did not know.  The room was no different than any room in middle class America, white walls with a few framed prints, sparsely...

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Short Fiction – Travelling to Oaxaca

Short Fiction – Travelling to Oaxaca

  In northern Mexico they work.  In central Mexico they think.  In southern Mexico they rest.   She was travelling to Oaxaca for her two-year old goddaughter's birthday.  Chocolate cupcakes and a wrapped present were in the carry on.  Her eyes laughed as the...

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Coincidence Or Business As Usual

Coincidence Or Business As Usual

[Click on BLUE links for sources and more information]     They’re back in the news again.  All three.  At the same time.  Oliver North soon “to be the NRA’s new president”, Iran, Donald Trump Says U.S. Will No Longer Abide by Nuclear Agreement, and Daniel...

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The Eyes Have It

The Eyes Have It

  [Click on BLUE links for sources and more information]   At the library, Sandman eased himself into a chair, booted up one of the computers and showed him how to access the files of individuals the Securities and Exchange Commission kept on its website as...

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The Tragedy of Maxim Gorky: What It Means For Us Today

The Tragedy of Maxim Gorky: What It Means For Us Today

  [Click on BLUE links for sources and more information]   For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?   Mark 8:36   "The aim of literature is to help man to understand himself, to strengthen the trust in...

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Laughter

Laughter

  [Click on BLUE links for sources and more information]   I hate scarce smiles, I love laughing. William Blake annotations to Aphorisms on Man by Johann Caspar Lavater   Several have defined man as "an animal which laughs." Henri Bergson, Laughter...

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