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Mission Statement or Confession of Permanent State Since Birth

My writing wants to knock you down. It is intended to offend, challenge, and change you. It is calculated to thwart your expectations. It is meant not to fit into your sad little categories. It will crawl into your head … Continue reading

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“Show, Don’t Tell” – a RAT STEW Column

Rat Stew A Column for The Reluctant Famulus by Gene Stewart “Show, don’t tell.” We hear this echoed in English composition classes. We hear it parroted in writing workshops. We hear it cited in reviews and quoted in interviews. We … Continue reading

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Rusted Chains On Scabbed Flesh

We know, as Chas. Fort observed decades ago:                                                                           We’re property. It’s not space aliens or imaginary gods,                                                                                              It’s the psychopathic 1% of us,                                                                                                               People-shaped things. About 400 of them. No kidding. They are as if alien to us, As … Continue reading

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A Tickle of Cavern Echoes

Our terrors purge our need to conjure demons, to draw threats, to find things we flee from so we can imagine a scorched respite snatched from the fire of simple survival. In this way dim light is cast, a glow … Continue reading

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