Category Archives: Sample Essays

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

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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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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Dark Vibes, Brightly

Posted on April 11, 2018 by Gene Stewart

VAULT-7 is a code name for a US/UK joint covert surveillance program using electronics and anything with a chip in it to spy on us.  The CIA created its own NSA using malware inserted, via promises of profit, paid bribes, … Continue reading →

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In Darkness We Alight

Posted on April 2, 2018 by Gene Stewart

Embrace the darkness.  Why? Look at the sky, at night.  Look at the universe. It is a simple fact:  Darkness subsumes all light. Stars burn out.  Darkness does not. Lucifer had to BRING light.  Prometheus had to STEAL fire. Darkness … Continue reading →

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Property’s Dissent

Posted on March 29, 2018 by Gene Stewart

Lilly & Her Ball/Distraction:  Property We went to The Moon, yes, but we also may have faked what the public saw, for two reasons: Nixon was thus ensured good media, and a covert military mission could be performed out in … Continue reading →

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Hard Won Writing Pointers

Posted on March 23, 2018 by Gene Stewart

Old writing adage:  “I am not I, he is not he, they are not they.” Never mention anything until it’s necessary. Then do so as obliquely or as concisely as possible. Pick a single story line to follow through. A … Continue reading →

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