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

Rebecca Snow Interviews Gene Stewart

Posted on November 18, 2013 by Gene Stewart

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Get Up And Fight Back

Posted on November 18, 2013 by Gene Stewart

Someone walks up to you and your loved ones and begins swinging an axe and just chopping the bloody hell out of your loved ones. Bet you stand there “loving” them and “forgiving” them and saying, “Oh, there’s still hope” … Continue reading →

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Brief Statement About Self Publishing

Posted on November 6, 2013 by Gene Stewart

If you write only one 90,000-word novel per year, all you have to write is ten or eleven words an hour. Publishers want only a book a year. They pretend it’s about quality, as if somehow there is a gauge … Continue reading →

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Elephant Falling

Posted on November 5, 2013 by Gene Stewart

A focus in the quality of light. A shift in the silence. Eyes staring from shreds of dream. A reliance on compliance. A clarity in place of all we seem. / W B Kek

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Untitled Guest Poem

Posted on November 4, 2013 by Gene Stewart

The leaves are down, the shutters are down, night fell down early. The leaves are down, the shutters are down,  night fell down early.  The trees, the House, the moon left standing.  Some of us fell underground, cradled by tree … Continue reading →

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Folly’s Adieu

Posted on October 31, 2013 by Gene Stewart

Writing life into words afflicts some of us. It’s maddening when our best is too good for print. Like being over-qualified, I suppose. We are men of letters in an unlettered dark time. There is a basic distinction to be … Continue reading →

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The Erotic Novels of Everett Bedford

Posted on October 28, 2013 by Gene Stewart

A guest blog from Everett Bedford in which he discusses genuine, unrestrained alternatives to various shades of pale vanilla imitation that have currently cluttered the  erotica market.  Want the good stuff?  Here is some of the best there is, just … Continue reading →

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News-Like Shows

Posted on October 23, 2013 by Gene Stewart

As Paddy Chayevsky warned in the script for the astonishingly-prescient film NETWORK, in 1976 mind you, the first hard shove toward the complete downfall of media journalism came when news organizations were placed under the entertainment banner and became responsible … Continue reading →

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Midnight In Peking, A Review

Posted on October 18, 2013 by Gene Stewart

Midnight In China by Paul French Penguin, 2012, 1st American Edition ISBN: 978-0-14-312100-8 260pp, Hardcover, $26/US b&w and color photo section source list, no index A Review by Gene Stewart Midnight In Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman … Continue reading →

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Trust, Ashes

Posted on October 16, 2013 by Gene Stewart
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