Category Archives: Sample Essays

Some examples of essays written for APA zines. Yes, I’m that old.

A Thousand Words on Ed & Sherlock

Posted on May 3, 2016 by Gene Stewart

Ed Gein’s cauldron came up for auction and Zak Bagans of GHOST ADVENTURES fame, or notoriety, bought it, to be used on his new show DEADLY POSSESSIONS, about haunted objects associated with death in some way.  Each episode he displays … Continue reading →

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Past Echoes Present In Future Dreads

Posted on February 1, 2016 by Gene Stewart

We are witnessing America going fascist in appalling lurches.  Little is gradual about it although certainly the prep-work took all the decades since WW II.  Bigotry, intolerance, and militant nationalism rooted in trumped-up fear and hate usher in textbook Nazi-style … Continue reading →

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History’s Now: Remarks About The Black Dahlia’s Possible Killer

Posted on February 1, 2016 by Gene Stewart

Fauna Hodel is the daughter of Dr. George Hodel and his daughter, Tamar, who was 14 when he got her pregnant. John Huston is said to have hit that, too, among other celebrities and VIPs.  John Philips of The Mamas … Continue reading →

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Hidden Influences

Posted on January 23, 2016 by Gene Stewart

Watched on Nat Geo Ch an old but good documentary, HITLER AND THE OCCULT, largely mining Peter Levenda’s book Unholy Alliance.  It focused on a sketchy overview of the eerie, even spooky, connections to astrologers and occultists affecting Hitler and … Continue reading →

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The Beginning of The End, Black Sabbath’s Last Tour’s First Concert

Posted on January 22, 2016 by Gene Stewart

Black Sabbath, Omaha, Nebraska, USA, 20 January 2016 CE, evening No one to glance at, share with, In moments when events Signify chains of memories Shared memory means life. / W B Kek /// Writers learn to store experience, observation, … Continue reading →

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Huxley’s Hinges: An Essay Toward A Coherent, Inclusive Reality

Posted on January 13, 2016 by Gene Stewart

Drugs let you dismiss what you experience while they affect you.  Under the influence, we say.  We blame intoxication, a poisoning.  Some drugs we call hallucinogens.  They engender false visions, we claim.  Drugs let us deny what we experience because … Continue reading →

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Aping the Worst

Posted on December 29, 2015 by Gene Stewart

Serial killers become celebrities in America and around the world, their personal things collected, their images polished, and their lives endlessly studied by wanna-bes.  This despite serial killers having reduced everything to a mindless stupidity:  Kill. They are boring imbeciles, … Continue reading →

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Between Blinks

Posted on December 21, 2015 by Gene Stewart

Art is more important than history. What you create matters more than lies agreed upon. The notion of history is bogus. It is simply lack of imagination all around to think the stories told of earlier times are any more … Continue reading →

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A Day Closely Approaching Winter

Posted on December 17, 2015 by Gene Stewart

Stone Sea – A Socratic, Aristotelian, or Possibly Asimovian Dialogue for A Day Closely Approaching Winter # Cold winds blow leaves and sparrows through crowds of desultory shoppers. A Writer, shoulders slumped, hands in pocket, head hung low, slouches out … Continue reading →

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Making Things Is Better Than Re-Arranging or Breaking Things

Posted on December 7, 2015 by Gene Stewart

I write most of my stories for their own sake, with audience being a secondary or tertiary consideration after-the-fact. Art for art’s sake, I guess.   “Money, for gods’ sake,” as 10CC cited.   Thing is, as my eldest son … Continue reading →

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