Category Archives: the end is the beginning

What a Long Strange Year It Has Been

Illustrated World/ December 2010 This has been a year of great change around here, and probably for many families. Some years are just like that. I lost my job and found another one almost as good. My lovely wife graduated … Continue reading

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River of Dreams #42: The End/Beginning

Final Chapter The Beginning of Another Story Emmylou was the first one wake, her mind full of the events that seemed more a dream than what had just faded from her mind as she came awake. She stretched cautiously and … Continue reading

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One More Sentence, Please, Dear Reader/Writer?

The reader! You, dogged, uninsultable, print-oriented bastard, it’s you I’m addressing, who else, from inside this monstrous fiction. You’ve read me this far, then? Even this far? For what discereditable motive? How is it you don’t go to a movie, … Continue reading

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Everything Is Up in the Air and Coming Down Fast

I have just finished my new improved resume, and now I look around at the havoc that is my home in the midst of the moving process. It looks like a giant picked my house up and shook it like … Continue reading

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Waking Up From A Dream Job

Well the final blow has come. I am soon to be unemployed. I actually thought the school I am working for was going to make it. I thought we had weathered stormy night of economic bad times and come out … Continue reading

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