Category Archives: Gene’s Art

Scribbles for Jingly

Posted on June 7, 2018 by Gene Stewart

Learn:  YA books are booming because adults read them because they’re EASIER TO READ.  Break down your own work to 4th grade level and watch your sales blossom.  Cynical, perhaps, but accurate advice. Your writing has to be good enough.  … Continue reading →

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Why It’s Mars Or Bust

Posted on June 5, 2018 by Gene Stewart

Four autonomous military robots linked to a satellite went berserk in a lab in Japan and killed 29 people.  Techs shut them down and took them apart, but will they try again?  Should they? Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking, and Bill … Continue reading →

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Dream of the Devil’s Spa

Posted on June 5, 2018 by Gene Stewart

Dreamed of a spa deep underground, down hundreds of stairs of wood, where one could swim in volcanic waters.  A guide from the shop upstairs led us, a young man, and he accompanied my wife into the changing room, which … Continue reading →

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No Question Zone Ahead, Answers Will Be Shot

Posted on June 4, 2018 by Gene Stewart

Why are fringers attacked for asking questions?  Why such vicious opposition to questions? Debunkers don’t wish to share answers or protect chosen topics, perhaps.  Are they blocking routes to inquiry, too?  Why? Philip J. Klass was once their goblin king.  … Continue reading →

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The Thing Is… What?

Posted on May 30, 2018 by Gene Stewart

To our misfortune, photographic and video evidence no longer suffices as evidence we can trust, if ever it did.  Illusionists and hoaxers have been with us always.  They present amazing things for their own purposes, often to manipulate or exploit … Continue reading →

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A Shadow In the Flesh

Posted on May 1, 2018 by Gene Stewart

They had three days in the new apartment and Karen had promised they’d leave it as they’d found it, but already one of the crew had clunked one of the big sound consoles on a door frame, chipping the paint.  … Continue reading →

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A Flash of Lightning

Posted on April 20, 2018 by Gene Stewart

Lightning Pictograph, Neolithic We were taken on the bus from Kindergarten to a state park where trees over a hundred feet high made shadowed places where deer could be seen if we were lucky.  There were paths we were to … Continue reading →

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Childhood Fiction Lessons

Posted on April 19, 2018 by Gene Stewart

Grew up around guys whose sense of humor included dead-pan tall tales, to test people, to see how far along they could string them.  If the listener didn’t balk, they were laughed at once they left.   It was more … Continue reading →

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Got A Harley Yet?

Posted on April 18, 2018 by Gene Stewart

Does monarchy counter fascism? Must voting decay to marches?   Torches illuminate faces as Fire shines on bloody cobblestones;   Feet stomp grapes for wine or Leather-clad, goose-step on rights.   Does democracy buoy humanity? Must majority equal coup?   … Continue reading →

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Out the Window

Posted on April 12, 2018 by Gene Stewart

  Defenestration is a term describing a method of murder popular during several eastern European revolutions.  It means to throw someone out a high window.  Being higher than 75 feet is considered a guarantee of fatality. On 28 November 1953, … Continue reading →

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