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

Between Blinks

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

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

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

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

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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Clementine Is Now Unbound

A friend’s delicious, superb, piquant journal of brilliant poetry.  Please check it out, support it, and enjoy. /// The December issue of Clementine Poetry Journal is now live. Big thanks and congratulations to our December poets! The poems are in … Continue reading

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Come On

My father said, “Come on,” and we walked out of the house, through the yard, and into fields on hills.  We eventually descended into a copse and there amidst the trees he took out a revolver.  “Set me up some … Continue reading

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Tempestuous Teapottery –

Tempestuous Teapottery – Should an artist’s flaws count against the art? Should an image, a grotesque caricature really, of HPL be dumped because the man himself was a racist? Is hate by association sufficient? Ask the same of Nazi documentariste … Continue reading

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Excerpt From a Developing Novel

Clarista told Grau about an interview with an old cowboy she’d conducted back at the cattle mutilation site, a man who’d worked his whole life on ranches. He’d bedded down on the ground and his fire had collapsed to embers.  … Continue reading

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Review of Murder As A Fine Art by David Morrell

Murder As A Fine Art by David Morrell 2013, Little, Brown, & Co. hc ISBN: 978-0-316-21679-1 Introduction, Afterword, Postscript, 358pp A Review by Gene Stewart Yes, the title echoes the book by Thomas De Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium … Continue reading

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