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

Clips from FB from my birthday last year until now

Failure is art, and art is failure. We fall short, inevitably, even if awarded. It’s nice to have community accolades, and it does have an affect on how one’s art is perceived and thus its community worth, or value, but … Continue reading

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Heads-Up-Display: Don’t Blink

Rat Stew A Column for Tom Sadler’s APA zine The Reluctant Famulus TRF #96 by Gene Stewart Heads-Up-Display: Don’t Blink Shit floats and imagines itself superior. That’s what came to me as I thought about writing. As I thought about … Continue reading

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Wednesday Afternoon, No Closer To Knowing

photo courtesy of Krysia Jopek   No strings, she said. Hollow instrument of Seductive curves. Serpentine cuts, Dark interior. It won’t play, she said. I cannot play it. Soft thumps Flat of echo Mocked us as We set it down … Continue reading

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Just Another Ape Behind Glass

Like any other rape in any other zoo, he knew the glass was there but didn’t understand why. Or did he? Glass was considered more humane than bars, but bars allowed at least the chance of touch. Glass didn’t even … Continue reading

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Fragment of Liturgy From Hessia Abbey

Vast is the Earth, yet so is it small. To a demon, Earth is a bauble. To one lost in a desert, Earth is a solid echo of the sky. Between those truths we live our mad scramble lives from … Continue reading

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Unheard Echo

How to be free from Contingency When distant edge Is all I see? How to catch up to Family Who rush into Complacency? How to be seen, to Simply be? This ghost existence Murders me. We are both here now. … Continue reading

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Road Rage Serial Killer Strikes Again, Escapes As Usual: A True Story

Once, in a rented car, driving through TN or KY, whole family in the car, on a two lane during a blizzard complete with fog, some idiot in a black car, no headlights, came ripping up at 90 and cut … Continue reading

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We Don’t Feel So Good These Days

Mononucleosis is caused by the Epstein-Barr virus, which is a retrovirus – goes dormant and can surface to flatten us. Its origins remain mysterious. Lyme disease, another retro virus, almost certainly came from biological weapons experiments on Plum Island. It … Continue reading

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Hello, Angelina (Ellen Page, Jr.)

Forgot to get your website and would like to see your art. My email is Stews9@cox.net. Namaste.

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The Ocean At the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman, A Review

The Ocean at the End of the Lane Neil Gaiman William Morrow, 2013, 178pp hc, First Edition ISBN: 973 0 06 225565 5 $25.99 (a bargain at twice the price) A Review by Gene Stewart Our narrator at the start … Continue reading

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