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

Ageism and Obstacles

I was speaking of ageism on a John Shirley thread and told this story: When I was 16 I wrote a story called “Not Buzzard” and sent it, my very first submission ever, to ESQUIRE, being naive. A week or … Continue reading

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Brighten Up

Nothing hidden is lost.  Nothing found is new.  To reveal is to re-veil what is found, to put it into a new guise.  Reality is a solid, eternal amidst the flicker of firelight and thought. —  Frater Aujen Tetari, erro … Continue reading

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Science Fiction’s Clenched Fist of Nostalgia Considered As a Gesture of Triumph

A Very Slight Editorial /// Standard thesis: Golden Age science fiction was not written as well as much of today’s but was demonstrably smarter. Survey: With the proviso that there have always been highly literate and artful writers working in … Continue reading

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“Murder Knife” as by Samael Gyre is up at BIG PULP

Here’s the link: “Murder Knife” by Samael Gyre at BIG PULP

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Ratigan Spits Out the Flat Truth

Dylan Ratigan Speaks Truth On MSNBC Of All Places This is amazingly blunt, ferociously delivered fact. If this link doesn’t work, here ’tis: http://www.minds.com/blog/view/236890213266231296/news-anchor-dylan-ratigan-completely-loses-it-for-the-best-possible-reason Reality’s too scary and confusing to be real. — Teabagger credo.

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Rusted Chains On Scabbed Flesh

We know, as Chas. Fort observed decades ago:                                                                           We’re property. It’s not space aliens or imaginary gods,                                                                                              It’s the psychopathic 1% of us,                                                                                                               People-shaped things. About 400 of them. No kidding. They are as if alien to us, As … Continue reading

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Assault & Battery In the Bread Aisle

This Just Happened Sunday 1 Dec 2013 at about 13:13 at Offutt AFB Commissary — So I’m standing in the bread aisle complaining to my wife about how my cell phone’s battery has begun draining too quickly as of last … Continue reading

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Five New Poems

View Down a Steep Hill I write poems about the silence of the goddess. Unrequited love of what may not be there is our cry in the wilderness, Unanswered throughout our existence. Every instant and inch apart is regret made … Continue reading

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Be No Dupe

My wife occasionally gets exasperated and asks me how I can get so much entertainment from, say, ANCIENT ALIENS, and I try to explain how I watch such things on a meta-level. Also, I get a big kick out of … Continue reading

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Book Jump

No clue, but true department: We were playing cards here once and a book lying flat on a counter fell loudly flat onto the floor. We all looked. Hm, we thought. We put it back. It did it again, this … Continue reading

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