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The Fictional History of Goosebumps: #2 Stay Out Of The Basement
Stephen King for the grade school set is back at it with the second installment in the Goosebumps series. The synopsis from the book from Stine’s official site: “Dr. Brewer is doing a little plant-testing in his basement. Nothing to worry about. Harmless, really. But Margaret and Casey Brewer are worried about their father. Especially […]
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Pain With No Gain
As if the very nature of existence and the general melancholia of the past two weeks were not enough I somehow screwed up my back this week. Despite all efforts to drug the pain away, nothing has happened. I should seek professional treatment, but that requires effort. I do not wish to put forth an […]
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And That’s The Game!
I remember summer evening like this. I remember the cool grass in the afternoon when the sun went behind the clouds, and when it reemerged, feeling like God’s own breath on my face. In the little town where I grew up, lazy summer afternoons were spent languidly throwing the old tennis ball for our dog, […]
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The Erotica of P.G. Wodehouse
I have sent this to the only two places that I thought might possibly like this even a little. It was rejected outright both times. So I hand it over to you. I apologize in advance. The Erotica of P.G. Wodehouse I had just arrived at Aunt Agatha’s place at Woollam Chersey for a lengthy […]
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Mornin’
It’s Sunday morning and I expect nothing of this day. It is how I approach most days, and most of life. Expect nothing and you won’t be disappointed. Do not expect a movie to be good and you won’t leave angry. Don’t expect people to be kind and you won’t be hurt. It reads as […]
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Saturday
Today is Saturday and I have come down with some for of sickness. All while still trying to take care of my wife who has a sprained ankle. “O true apothecary, may death come quickly ….”
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The Fictional History of Goosebumps: #1 Welcome To Dead House
If you were a child in the 1990s, then I need not tell you about the greatest living author in American letters today. R. L. Stine has thrilled and chilled the world’s junior horror buffs for years. Many of us who grew up on his works have gone on to create stories of our own, […]
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The Mind is a Runaway Stagecoach
I don’t quite know how one meditates and still indulges this impulse for humor. You can’t quite divorce yourself from the ego and still maintain this muscle that thrives on finding everything wrong with the world. I do know that when Covid shut the world down that my head, medicated as it was, could not […]
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There’s No More Good Titles for Anxiety And Depression Articles
I sat here trying to think or a clever and/or witty title for this piece, but nothing was good enough. So I gave up. Which is really the best way to start this. I was at an urgent care today when the nurse remarked, “I think we’re all pretty much on anxiety meds these days, […]
Christopher Duvall 