Author Archives: Gene Stewart

About Gene Stewart

Born 7 Feb 1958 Altoona, PA, USA Married 1980 Three sons, grown Have lived in Japan, Germany, all over US Currently in Nebraska I write, paint, play guitar Read widely Wide taste in music, movies Wide range of interests Hate god yap Humanist, Rationalist, Fortean Love the eerie

Now or Never

Posted on May 18, 2017 by Gene Stewart

Recently bought unabridged copies of The Three Musketeers and Twenty Years After by Alexander Dumas, per, the first two of the four Musketeer books.  It struck me that we need fiction of that sort today.  Instead of the now-standard dystopias, … Continue reading →

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Troont

Posted on May 17, 2017 by Gene Stewart

Troont. Did you realize trump is treated worse and more unfairly than any politician in history? Neither did historians. Many thought of those who’d been held in prison for most of their lives; tortured until they went mad; assassinated.  Surely … Continue reading →

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“Heated Anger Heals As It Anneals”

Posted on May 16, 2017 by Gene Stewart

Interestingly, Charles Dickens, on his first visit to USA in 1842, observed precisely that same suppression of unpopular views we see now, with moronic labels of Fake News and the physical attack of opponents who dare express dissent at trump’s … Continue reading →

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Seeing Evil by Jason Parent, a Review

Posted on May 15, 2017 by Gene Stewart

Seeing Evil by Jason Parent Red Adept Publishing, trade pb July 2015, First Edition, 230pp A Review by Gene Stewart Concise, savvy writing propels this psychological thriller as lives clash in a struggle for survival that becomes increasingly intense and … Continue reading →

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Fight the Agitprop, Rise Up Now

Posted on May 15, 2017 by Gene Stewart

Watched NBC News inadvertently on Sunday and discovered it is rife with right wing attitude and ‘lesson’ stories. Reminded me strongly of how brainwashed we were when I was growing up. Obviously the 1% is afraid of us now and … Continue reading →

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Various & Sundry Poems & Thoughts For All Tastes & Sizes

Posted on May 1, 2017 by Gene Stewart

Commerce killed art. We are owned. We are corporate property. We are price points. We are consumer units. We are commodities. We are profitable debt. We are manipulated. We are not human beings. Commerce killed art. Art is necessary for … Continue reading →

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Crossing Into Taboo

Posted on May 1, 2017 by Gene Stewart

Who exactly forbids forbidden knowledge? How do they enforce their whims? The secret is, there is no secret. Forbidders are those terrified to learn anything.  They are the straight-and-narrow path types, living in blinders. /// Three examples of forbidden, or … Continue reading →

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Deserve All This

Posted on March 31, 2017 by Gene Stewart

By 7PM the coverage was ready to call it for Hillary, so huge was her margin of victory. Then, in four or five winner-take-all states, things began happening that no one could believe because, frankly, they were statistically impossible. Cheating … Continue reading →

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Change Is Our Only Hope

Posted on March 31, 2017 by Gene Stewart

As a ferocious liberal who does not like the Left-Right dichotomy, which artificially polarizes us, and as an Appalachian, born and raised in the Laurel Highland Mountains of Western Pennsylvania, bituminous coal country, I became radicalized by witnessing the culture … Continue reading →

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Clash To Merge

Posted on March 17, 2017 by Gene Stewart

Bring me to the surface slowly So I don’t burst. Raise the water’s temperature Gradually So I don’t scald. Soar with me at heights No longer held by air To help us breathe. Fall with me, our plunge A tumble … Continue reading →

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