Monthly Archives: December 2015

Aping the Worst

Posted on December 29, 2015 by Gene Stewart

Serial killers become celebrities in America and around the world, their personal things collected, their images polished, and their lives endlessly studied by wanna-bes.  This despite serial killers having reduced everything to a mindless stupidity:  Kill. They are boring imbeciles, … Continue reading →

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Between Blinks

Posted on December 21, 2015 by Gene Stewart

Art is more important than history. What you create matters more than lies agreed upon. The notion of history is bogus. It is simply lack of imagination all around to think the stories told of earlier times are any more … Continue reading →

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A Day Closely Approaching Winter

Posted on December 17, 2015 by Gene Stewart

Stone Sea – A Socratic, Aristotelian, or Possibly Asimovian Dialogue for A Day Closely Approaching Winter # Cold winds blow leaves and sparrows through crowds of desultory shoppers. A Writer, shoulders slumped, hands in pocket, head hung low, slouches out … Continue reading →

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I So Truly Hate the Fire of Time

Posted on December 14, 2015 by Gene Stewart

I so truly hate the fire of time Burning all we’ve come to know Taking cherished lives away Removing marks they made in snow Crushing carvings stone by stone Obliterating every trace of us Unplanned, stochastic obsolescence Devouring mindlessly duration’s … Continue reading →

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Making Things Is Better Than Re-Arranging or Breaking Things

Posted on December 7, 2015 by Gene Stewart

I write most of my stories for their own sake, with audience being a secondary or tertiary consideration after-the-fact. Art for art’s sake, I guess.   “Money, for gods’ sake,” as 10CC cited.   Thing is, as my eldest son … Continue reading →

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A Trolling Of Humanity

Posted on December 5, 2015 by Gene Stewart

Any gods being imaginary, conceptual and not factual, Hitler and his ilk of psychopaths, fascists, GOP yeast infections, and other nihilists can rest assured they will never face divine retribution nor have their eternal spirits damned to suffer in any … Continue reading →

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