Category Archives: Sample Essays

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

Pay Writers For Their Work

Posted on May 14, 2014 by Gene Stewart

You want free writing from writers? To put on your Ezine? So you get free ISP too, right? Free art? Free web design? Oh, it’s in print. So it’s on free paper too? Free ink? Free printing, shipping, storage, and … Continue reading →

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Simply and Possibly Our Last Chance

Posted on May 12, 2014 by Gene Stewart

“Innocence is suspicious and often proof of guilt.” This is the fascist mentality. The Mittbot might well have said this and it’s the whole mindset behind the GOP obsession with non issues and phony scandals such as Whitewater, Vince Foster, … Continue reading →

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Heads-Up World, a Rat Stew column for Tom Sadler’s The Reluctant Famulus

Posted on February 28, 2014 by Gene Stewart

Rat Stew by Gene Stewart “Heads-Up World” I got a Nike wrist band for Yule. It is a watch, showing the time, and strongly water resistant. In addition, it collects a set of data on how much one moves and … Continue reading →

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Panning Gold From Life

Posted on February 6, 2014 by Gene Stewart

As a reader, I have known that good writing is really all that matters. Even when I was a kid. As a writer, I know that market category forces us into a Procrustean deal with the devil. Warping our work … Continue reading →

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You Don’t Even Have Time For Only The Best

Posted on January 31, 2014 by Gene Stewart

Take this seriously: Read only the absolute best you can find. If a book or story begins to fail you, toss it over your shoulder and find one that compels you to keep reading. You think you have all the … Continue reading →

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Oblique Obligatory Observations

Posted on January 16, 2014 by Gene Stewart

9/11? Demolition. Obviously so. Now drink the fucking Kool-ade and shut the fuck up, you crazies, you conspiracy nuts, you freaks with tin-foil on your head who’d rather believe your own eyes, your own thinking, and physics than us, your … Continue reading →

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Stray Captions, Remarks, and Comments

Posted on December 28, 2013 by Gene Stewart

Go into a store and be ignored by bored sales staff. Be brushed off by indifferent managers. OR: Go in, find THEM, TELL them what you want from them, INSIST they deal with it right now, and KEEP AT THEM … Continue reading →

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Brighten Up

Posted on December 13, 2013 by Gene Stewart

Nothing hidden is lost.  Nothing found is new.  To reveal is to re-veil what is found, to put it into a new guise.  Reality is a solid, eternal amidst the flicker of firelight and thought. —  Frater Aujen Tetari, erro … Continue reading →

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Science Fiction’s Clenched Fist of Nostalgia Considered As a Gesture of Triumph

Posted on December 12, 2013 by Gene Stewart

A Very Slight Editorial /// Standard thesis: Golden Age science fiction was not written as well as much of today’s but was demonstrably smarter. Survey: With the proviso that there have always been highly literate and artful writers working in … Continue reading →

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Ratigan Spits Out the Flat Truth

Posted on December 4, 2013 by Gene Stewart

Dylan Ratigan Speaks Truth On MSNBC Of All Places This is amazingly blunt, ferociously delivered fact. If this link doesn’t work, here ’tis: http://www.minds.com/blog/view/236890213266231296/news-anchor-dylan-ratigan-completely-loses-it-for-the-best-possible-reason Reality’s too scary and confusing to be real. — Teabagger credo.

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