Tag: ShortStory
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That Depends On The Day…
Do you spend more time thinking about the future or the past? Why? Depending on what’s happening in my private world and the external world around me, I can be drawn to an event or a few in my past or humanity’s common past. Or portents of current or recent actions may have me fatally…
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First Sunday In January – Morning Ride
First Sunday In January – Morning Ride the morning air was heavy and thickhazy sunshine filtered throughthe thickly marbled sky encountered only a couple ofdog-walkers using the Loopand a paint horse and riderleisurely ambling southin the dry riverbed yellow goat head thorn blossomscyclists with air-filled tires’ banecovered large swaths ofthe Loop’s sides along with an…
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It’s A New Year
It’s A New Year a new year with itsnew prioritiesresolutionsclean slatesand such ? or the eternalever-present nowconnecting whatwe thought we knewto a futurecompletely unknown every instant of nowanother step in thecosmic dance and flow no slates are cleanmarked with actions andmemories indelible in andwith our personalitiesconditioned by proximities so, even withoutthe vaunted ‘clean slate’all resolves…
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Info Bombardment
Info Bombardment information floods us 24/7overloading perceptionsoverriding common sense too much to processnever mind anycritical thought but everyone seems to crave moreboth social and legacy mediatrying to even the score as each source negates the otherso-called facts distortedto cover the elites’ derriers Nietzsche gave us the clueno facts but perceptionspropaganda of the ruling few perceptions…
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Save Our VA Protest – Tucson – 1/2/26
Three of us walked the line at the VA’s Ajo entrance for the morning shift change, 6:30-8:30 am. As in previous weeks, we had about a 75% response rate. I only saw one confirmed negative, a bouncing thumb down… Our third person, walking the line, is from Veterans For Peace. He joins us from time…
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Glaring Sun
This is a memory from the first three quarters of my life in the fozen north Glaring Sun Eyes squint, glaring sunfrom snow hills against blue skiesdry pampas grass waves. –LE – Circa 1999
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More Shadows
More Shadows light beams interveneddistorted shadows caststrange abstract pictures unadorned walls changefloors at right angles augmentnightmare shadow-art –LE – 12/30/25
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A New Year’s Meditation
Arbiter And CuratorA New Year’s Meditation Akkam’s razor suggeststhat the simplest answeris often correct and the best that seems a good blueprintfor a simple and minimalist lifestylecollecting and keeping onlywhat is truly needed and desired not acquiring for acquisition’s sakenor to lord it over those with ‘less’taking more than one needsseems immoral to me each…
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Brain-numbing Mendacity
I wrote this awhile ago, but in light of recent history, it feels more appropriate than ever. Brain-numbing Mendacity utter mendacityup is downdown is upin is out andout is in you going to believeyour own eyes and earslisten to your own feelingsor what our owners andtheir lickspittles tell you victims are the predatorsthe predators are…
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Last Sumday In December Morning Ride
Last Sunday In December – Morning Ride On The Tucson Loop rode out under a bright December morning skyafter 3 days of off and on again yin-rainthe river and washes were dry desert Marigolds’ bright yellow bloomsshouldered the path in a few swathsand two small contrails marked the blue aboveone heading south, looking like a…
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