Category Archives: Sample Essays

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

It Isn’t Obligated to Make Sense

Posted on January 6, 2020 by Gene Stewart

As I read the excellent ninth Missing 411 book, Canada, I’m considering as always the impossibility — so far — of offering a convincing solution to the core mysteries of these cases. It struck me, as a writer, to think … Continue reading →

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Trust, But Verify … Remember That Tall Order?

Posted on December 2, 2019 by Gene Stewart

A presumed competence, a projected avoidance of flights of fancy, and a strict adherence to observed fact attaches to both active and ex military and police witnesses, buttressing their credibility. Their testimony often flops debates and influences conclusions. Yet, they’re … Continue reading →

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To Believe Is To Pretend: We Need To Know

Posted on November 29, 2019 by Gene Stewart

If wealth, privilege, and access adds up to the likes of Prince Andrew, trunt, or Jeffrey Epstein, who the fuck would ever want it? Epstein’s island and his Manhattan brownstone were honey-traps for Mossad. There and elsewhere he broke and … Continue reading →

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The Erosion of Corrosion From Corruption

Posted on November 19, 2019 by Gene Stewart

Critical thought has (been) atrophied so we take one step out of the corporate box and jump to emotionalism. Analysis, logic, rationality are not tossed aside, they are not even present in the first place, having been flensed from schools … Continue reading →

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Greedings

Posted on April 6, 2019 by Gene Stewart

In conscience I cannot Send this To anyone. Sat 6 Ape 2524  Greedings, It’s muggy, still, and in the 70’s. Windows being open helps little; it’s 19:32 and not yet cooling. In the coming week, snow is forecast. More rain, … Continue reading →

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The Other, Then & Now

Posted on March 26, 2019 by Gene Stewart

In the 1950s and 1960s we sat in quiet homes that received, at best, 3 TV channels and radio, and we heard about UFO flaps from word-of-mouth as often as via media. Local newspapers, which we all read, occasionally carried … Continue reading →

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Samizdat’s Door

Posted on March 12, 2019 by Gene Stewart

With the cooperation of social media, TV news, and corporate controls, accusation has been weaponized so it suffices to shoot down information outlets, to throttle voices, and to ruin lives. A threat to make trouble is all it takes. To … Continue reading →

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Flashback to 1992

Posted on March 11, 2019 by Gene Stewart

Synchronicity:  As I write, my TV’s on, rotting my brain.  Little kids appear on the screen. One tells the camera that a star is twenty feet bigger than a house. Another says that, without gravity, you could jump over those … Continue reading →

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Watch Out

Posted on March 8, 2019 by Gene Stewart

Time shifts, or space-time shifts, fascinate us because we’ve all had at least a glimpse of this experience. Interludes of walking into and back out of the past, for example. Finding buildings that aren’t there when you go back to … Continue reading →

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Unlock From Fear

Posted on February 4, 2019 by Gene Stewart

What often goes unnoticed is the fear fringe topics stir in many. Bring up ghosts, ask for stories, and everyone’s got one. They share, we all laugh, it’s okay. Behind those stories and smiles, however, often fear is coiled like … Continue reading →

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