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Burning in Stockholm

Burning in Stockholm

Another shaggy dog story.  Shaggy at least.  We've seen one of the characters before -- Mrs. Karsh -- the annoying dog-walking neighbour in "Marking

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Morty the Juice Cat

Morty the Juice Cat

This is another of my shaggy dog stories from a growing collection I'm tentatively calling "Terrors of the 21st Century."  The plan is that one day I

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Security – an eChapbook

Security - an eChapbook

Later in the year, I plan to launch two novels as ebooks.   To test the waters, I'm starting with something smaller:  an eChapbook titled Security.

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Meat

[ti_audio media="2108"] Every year, our street hosts a neighbourhood barbeque.  We close off the cul-de-sac end of the street – down by the Jeffri

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The FCC

[ti_audio media="2107"] If you click on the little audio thingy, you can listen to a story about the Federal Communications Commission or FCC (pronou

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Marking Boundaries

[ti_audio media="2106"] I set out on my morning walk with the dog – the same routine as always (what other kind of routine is there?) – pee on th

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Griefbot Inc.

[ti_audio media="2105"] Project:  Hughes, Edward Interview:  0031957 (Voice Calibration) Interviewer: Ginsberg, Alan So ya, man.  Name?  Hug

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The Incredible Shrinking Zombie

[ti_audio media="2104"] I had forgotten to take my meds again – not just a one time thing, but an “Oh shit” sinking feeling in the bottom of my

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Lessons From An Aphasic Priest

[ti_audio media="2103"] The gavel came down with a crack, which surprised me, because I thought that courts didn’t use real gavels anymore.  I tho

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Beautiful Losers

[ti_audio media="2102"] You know how the song goes:  “When you’re in love with a beautiful woman, it’s hard….”  That’s how I’ve alway

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Seventy-Two

[ti_audio media="2101"] Mohammed had been sitting outside on a rock for about a thousand years when Youssef pushed his way from the tent to join his

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The Dessicator

[ti_audio media="2100"] Norm and I had been on vacation when Ed across the road from us took his spell or whatever it was he took that ended up killi

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