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

Some Ripping Rip Snorters True and Otherwise

One interesting book I snagged recently at Half Price Books is Mysteries of Police and Crime: Victorian Murders by Major Arthur Griffiths. It is a facsimile of the 1889 edition. He was a prison inspector and deputy governor of Millbank … Continue reading

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Fairness Regained

Fairness Regained, a RAT STEW column by Old 815, written for THE RELUCTANT FAMULUS edited by Tom Sadler A literary journal just bragged that it liked to publish new literary voices and asked me to subscribe. “Publish some of my … Continue reading

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Extreme Story Alert

What many consider my most extreme story has been published in PARAPHILIA. I wrote “Even Trade” in 2006 and could never find anyone daring enough to publish it. Was even bounced from an anthology that had asked for the raunchiest … Continue reading

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Journal For Tonight

Journal Entry, Midwest American Wilderness, 20 February 2013 C.E. 00:03 — Keep flashing on the superb David Cronenberg movie NAKED LUNCH, with the eerie & ethereal Peter Weller. Great Ornett Coleman soundtrack, too. The movie combines the titular book with … Continue reading

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Eldorado Memories

Mine was not un-cheerful, just gothic as all hell a lot of the time. I used to lay in a room that was more a maid’s closet, our playroom dark beyond the doorway I faced, and watch as a scintilla … Continue reading

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Will History Fly?

Kathleen Edwards wrote: Studying history is, for all I can see, nothing but a picking and choosing of the human race of what they want to sell from the past and and what they want to sell to the future. … Continue reading

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Who Will It Be?

Publishing is changing. It’s no longer profitable to cling to the 19th Century models that have prevailed until digital became universal. Now it seems trad publishing sneers at ebooks, even as it tries hard to exploit them with the same … Continue reading

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A Conspiracy of Doubt

Conspiracy is as real as price fixing, point shaving, and gerrymandering. Worse, most things are not what they appear to be, at least on the surface. Dig deeper and always there is more complexity. History is lies agreed upon; this … Continue reading

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Dichotomy

The conservative stance is fear, hate, and greed, rationalized. The liberal stance is a rational attempt to get along and lessen everyone’s suffering. Every man for himself is conservative. All for one and one for all is liberal. Earth is … Continue reading

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Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) Teste di Giovinetta

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