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

Lucky Me

Posted on May 13, 2014 by Gene Stewart

Primary voting day; puts me in mind of other votes and their supporting demographics. Doctor Sleep by Stephen King, his sequel to The Shining, won this year’s Stoker Award. It is about the little boy Danny’s subsequent life in which … Continue reading →

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Simply and Possibly Our Last Chance

Posted on May 12, 2014 by Gene Stewart

“Innocence is suspicious and often proof of guilt.” This is the fascist mentality. The Mittbot might well have said this and it’s the whole mindset behind the GOP obsession with non issues and phony scandals such as Whitewater, Vince Foster, … Continue reading →

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Dire Prediction

Posted on March 27, 2014 by Gene Stewart

When it came to close up, hard focus revulsion, nothing could beat the movies. The most recent item I’d seen at the Ritz ended with the mother of a graphically raped daughter just as graphically castrating the villain with her … Continue reading →

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Heads-Up World, a Rat Stew column for Tom Sadler’s The Reluctant Famulus

Posted on February 28, 2014 by Gene Stewart

Rat Stew by Gene Stewart “Heads-Up World” I got a Nike wrist band for Yule. It is a watch, showing the time, and strongly water resistant. In addition, it collects a set of data on how much one moves and … Continue reading →

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Some Recent Culls From the Flow

Posted on February 12, 2014 by Gene Stewart

A Warm Touch In Cold Woods Ink is text juice Wrung from blood Tracks untrue Lure to traps Spring is pounce Fall is over Winter loses Summer calls Hidden in leaves Clinging to branches Oral sex in a Swaying tree’s … Continue reading →

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Lorde’s Suppressed, Censored Grammy Acceptance Speech

Posted on February 11, 2014 by Gene Stewart

Lorde: Thankyou soo much everyone for making this song explode because this world is mental. (Laughter). Planet Earth is run by psychopaths that hide behind slick marketing, ‘freedom’ propaganda and ‘economic growth’ rhetoric,[1] while they construct a global system of … Continue reading →

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Panning Gold From Life

Posted on February 6, 2014 by Gene Stewart

As a reader, I have known that good writing is really all that matters. Even when I was a kid. As a writer, I know that market category forces us into a Procrustean deal with the devil. Warping our work … Continue reading →

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You Don’t Even Have Time For Only The Best

Posted on January 31, 2014 by Gene Stewart

Take this seriously: Read only the absolute best you can find. If a book or story begins to fail you, toss it over your shoulder and find one that compels you to keep reading. You think you have all the … Continue reading →

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Oblique Obligatory Observations

Posted on January 16, 2014 by Gene Stewart

9/11? Demolition. Obviously so. Now drink the fucking Kool-ade and shut the fuck up, you crazies, you conspiracy nuts, you freaks with tin-foil on your head who’d rather believe your own eyes, your own thinking, and physics than us, your … Continue reading →

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Nightmare Color’s Origin

Posted on January 12, 2014 by Gene Stewart

As a child I had a recurring nightmare. I’d find myself crouched in a ditch or trench in eerie teal darkness.  It was always hellishly hot.  Silence held me in suspense for reasons I could not fathom but it felt … Continue reading →

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