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A Wassail Bowl of Rat Stew for Everyone at Yuletide

(Note:  My column Rat Stew appears in the APA Zine:  The Reluctant Famulus,             edited by Tom Sadler.  Please see link on right column of this page.) Christmas is a time for horror movies so let’s dive in, shall we? SILENCE … Continue reading

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What Goes Up

Joe Turner carried an apple crate into Eddie’s that night.  He hefted it up onto the bar, then climbed onto a stool.  He put his elbows on the bar and said, “Draft.” Eddie, the bartender, broke off a chat he’d … Continue reading

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A Review of Floating Staircase by Ronald Malfi

In Floating Staircase, Islands In the Stream by Hemingway, who is saluted overtly, Bradbury’s Dandelion Wine, and Thomas Harris’s Silence of the Lambs, echo like footsteps in an empty house. Flannery O’Connor’s shade flits by. There is a whiff of … Continue reading

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