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Midnight In Peking, A Review

Midnight In China by Paul French Penguin, 2012, 1st American Edition ISBN: 978-0-14-312100-8 260pp, Hardcover, $26/US b&w and color photo section source list, no index A Review by Gene Stewart Midnight In Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman … Continue reading

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Unheard Echo & Oblique Re-Entry

How to be free from Contingency When distant edge Is all I see? How to catch up to Family Who rush into Complacency? How to be seen, to Simply be? This ghost existence Murders me. Please notice me. /// /// … Continue reading

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Our Neighbor Committed Mass Murder The Other Day

Recently Neil Gaiman spoke of hiving a swarm of bees. He wrote with justifiable pride and a sweet gentleness. Not too many days ago my youngest son and I witnessed a swarm. It formed a cylinder perhaps sixty feet high. … Continue reading

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Her Scent On His Hands

He dreamed of her and woke with the scent of her perfume on his hands. She had been gone for more than a week. She had gone out for groceries and had not returned. Her car was found, with her … 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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