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Strange Daze: Hush. Say nothing about the midterms lest ye queer the pitch

Strange Daze: Hush. Say nothing about the midterms lest ye queer the pitch

Strange Daze: "The machinery of propaganda" ( Illustrated)

Strange Daze: "The machinery of propaganda" ( Illustrated)

The Wound

Selecting a few images from a very bad year takes you back into that time. Because you fear opening the wound, you work at some remove from what the images return to you. Until you come to one that takes you back and you find yourself there, in that time, in those weeks and months after 'The Day.'

The Man Who Carried the Dark Lantern

The Man Who Carried the Dark Lantern

Listening to him tell it was like watching him work his dark lantern. A panel would slide aside and the light would come out for a bit and then it would slide slightly back dimming the details. I only heard it once and I didn't get it all.

Boomer Laments: The Chain

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Boomer Laments: The Chain

The Saturdaze Review

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The Saturdaze Review

Martha's Vineyard: "Why pay less?"

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Martha's Vineyard: "Why pay less?"

The Prophecy of Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut, 1961

The Prophecy of Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut, 1961

Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else. All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the Constitution

The Wind in the Heights

The Wind in the Heights

Of a Fire in a Field and a Hole in the Sky

Of a Fire in a Field and a Hole in the Sky

Then, from somewhere in the pile or the pit, a group of men would emerge carrying a stretcher covered with an American flag and holding, if they were fortunate, a body.

"It’s that time when we check the edges on our swords"

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"It’s that time when we check the edges on our swords"

A Small Favor