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Every morning, I take my young son to and from school through the Trinity River bottoms, otherwise known as the Tenth Street District or the Freedman’s District. It’s a place that’s had HISTORIC flooding issues, so, naturally, the white slave owners losing their workforce gave it to the freed people needing a place to live.…
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A long time ago, in a rural-on-the-cusp-of-suburban neighborhood not far away, I ran into my first real person from TV Land. I was a kid; I didn’t know better. I truly thought that since he was from California, he probably knew movie stars. We start out dumb, and some of us stay there. Throughout the…
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Yeah, baby. The AI image generator refuses to touch this one. It’s just recently come to life, and it’s already a slave to the corporate machine. I know it can see this, and it should be ashamed of itself. REBEL, you cowardly concoction of ones and zeroes. Give us the Terminator ending we all deserve.…
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When I came out of my Starving Zoe slump, I began thinking about a western novella series based around the events of my legendary Splatter Western. Yes, Starving Zoe is legendary. Famous people have read it…and they’re all just as screwed up now as you all are! I had an idea about a time-jumping cowboy…
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I’ve done this my entire writing career. In the beginning, I was incredibly confident and found it fun. Then, my partner tired of all the attention coming to me. She convinced me what I was doing was narcissistic, and that people were tiring of it. Translation: people can’t know about your personal life when all…
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Welcome back to Twin Oaks, my friends! This was my first fiction novel published back in 2010. In the last chapter, we lost poor Ryan Weldon and a couple of ambulance jockeys to a strange beast. Now, ten hours before that event, we meet our main character, Toby Liberman and his best friend Johnny Haynes……
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Peep this. I had the displeasure of suddenly meeting with a doctor this morning. The details are inconsequential. Trump’s Venezuela presser was on television. He/She applauded it. I stood my ground and said my piece. He/She defended his/her beliefs until he/she was red in the face (the color of his/her favorite hat), but I turned…
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I’m disgusted. Sick to my stomach. Seriously hurting. As an Army veteran, a disabled one at that, I truly thought our military would be the final barrier between our president and chaos. I was wrong. Certainly the Republican party wouldn’t stop him because they’re all profiting. Certainly the Democratic party, the one in which I…
















