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“If it isn’t money and it isn’t fame and it isn’t sex… then what…God?”

A WELL THOUGHT OUT SCREAM

The Choice

October 28, 2024

Miguel Fernando was destined to become the greatest left handed baseball pitcher in history but when he was three he got into his dad’s gardening tools and cut off a good portion of his index finger. Of course, no human being knew this and it was really the fault of Heathrow, his guardian angel who was distracted by a random bolt from an electrical storm on Venus. Surprisingly, crap like this happened all the time on the supernatural plain where human life was considered invaluable but earthy goals were regarded mostly as a joke. The truth was that human beings didn’t live long to accomplish much of anything significant except make the One Choice that really mattered and that was, of course, Good or Evil. Equally surprising was that choice ratio was about 50/50. Of course, most of the humans who chose Evil really didn’t see it that way. They

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So you want to be a writer…

February 24, 2024

 Good for you! Write! Write to your heart’s contents. Write about anything and every-thing. Let you friends and your relatives read and enjoy your work. Remember, you don’t have to be published to be a writer. There are thousands of great writers who not only were never published, but never even sought to be published. So you want to make a living as a writer.    The goal of being a writer was a good thing. A fun thing. It could bring you a lot of joy and fulfillment. Why do you have to spoil it by trying to make money at it? Once you make money from something it becomes a product. And products are evaluated by how much they sell. The people who buy products have a right to have an opinion of them and express that opinion anyway they want.  All that would be okay, but there are

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The Perfect Throw

February 21, 2024

When I was about 11 years old, we had a neighborhood dirt clod fight at Marycrest Park. The only rule in a dirt clod fight is you can’t throw rocks or clods with rocks sticking in them. This day was an epic battle which found me leading a group of four or five kids battling against a kid named Donald who was a year older than me and his group. As I remember, they started it and they had more kids, meaner kids and older kids. We were the underdogs. And we were losing. Already two of our kids had gone home crying’. Donald and his top chieftain, Kathy Whitsel, were closing in on our position behind the park maintenance building when I came up with a daring plan. By sending two of our kids out towards the swings, I guessed correctly that Donal and company would go after them

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Award-winning author James Riordan writes the lyrics, and Mark Anthony Hébert puts them to music.

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