stories
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Of Aunts and Thank You’s
“Steve, I have some news” Beck said as I poked my head in the living room to her on the Beck couch to say “Hi” after what had been a frustrating but finally muddled through Friday. “Aunt Anne passed away” I was going to joke about something totally silly in my poking corners of living… Continue reading
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JJ and Me
Got a call from a friend of mine (Friday) while I was still toiling away in the radio salt mines (yes I know, I can be so dramatic). It had been a been a day of pounding that salt into fine powder, one that had lingered longer than the usual, giving me a right on… Continue reading
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While Thomas Went Mad (part one: Smoothing Stones)
While Thomas Went Mad (part one: Smoothing Stones) Thomas thought of madness quite often or at least what madness would allow. I mean it’s madness after all, he thought, would I, me, he or that beleaguered soul in a muddied street below seen from a high window who could be me even know? No, he… Continue reading
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Something of a Cat Named Arthur And of Backups (post post)
My Sis, Beck, at the end of last week was down in Wallkill, a few hours south of us here, for a couple of days and when she is gone for day or two, or possibly more, I will happily be tasked with being the caretaker (or cattaker if you will) of her three, Sephira,… Continue reading
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Headstone … The Walk
Headstone continued … The Walk Headstone In a graveyard nearing dusk the groundskeeper came upon Death, leaning heavily on his knot gnarl anguish handled scythe as he knelt at an almost hidden, fallen stone, shunned, just outside the cemetery, alone, at the edge of a large forest. He wept quietly. “Are you alright old man?”… Continue reading
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‘Tis the Creepy Season (some posts for such)
Not that you asked for it (I mean, who would?) but a handy dandy all in one spot, easy reference, to some things of mine for the Halloween season, oh, and watching some albino looking spider with a seeming translucent head scurry about the walls behind the PC who, I swear, is the same spider… Continue reading
Frankenberry's Attic 