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Words to Live By
To be truly challenging, a voyage, like a life, must rest on a firm foundation of financial unrest. If you are contemplating a voyage and you have the means, abandon the venture until your fortunes...
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For The Hell Of It
Busy, stressful day at work last Friday. Yet, all I could think about as I worked up in the warehouse or spoke to people on the phone, is how funny it would be to stick a couple of tennis balls down my...
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The Sandman
The other day my wife and I were rolling by one of my favorite remnants of old time St. Pete, The Sandman, when she pointed and said: "Huh. Looks like they're finally shutting that place down or...
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Interesting People
Reading a JD Salinger biography over the weekend- an author I've never read, but find somewhat fascinating as a person- I came upon an interesting individual. His name was William Shawn, and he was a...
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Sweet Suzy. Pressure. My Way.
Take a spin over to The Flash Fiction Offensive and see what happens when that big cat editor, David Barber, asks this ol' boy to write something quick and hard. Look to the picture above as the...
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Endless Days
I guess I was fourteen or so when it started. Insomnia. I didn't know the word for what I was going through. I only knew I couldn't sleep. Hours lying in bed, masturbating and waiting for the world to...
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Hard Years. Hard People.
My Grandpa Wilkerson was, by all accounts, a hard man. Had to be. An oilfield man in Kansas during the 20's, 30's, 40's and beyond had little other choice. The genes were passed down.Grandpa Wilkerson...
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Down The Street
Looks like I may be losing another muse. Tina's Angel's, a few blocks away down on 34th street, is for sale. An old hotel turned strip club, flophouse. This is one of those deals where you struggle...
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A Warmer Climate
Unseasonably warm here in this part of the country. Note the sweat on my back and the shorts and t-shirt. But we do have a cold front coming through and tomorrow it may only get up to 70. The crap I...
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For My Friends...
I hope you know who you are and what you mean to me.From sunny Florida—Happy New Year!But before I go, here's a little story my mother in law told me. If you're an old movie buff, you'll get it. If...
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Working Man Blues
I hate the 9-5 grind with an unmeasureable intensity. I've never even discussed the workplace here, because I like to separate work (job) and writing (passion). And I will continue to do so. But every...
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South Korean Crime Noir
I don't watch much television. But on Friday nights, I like a good movie. I'd ran the gamut of American crime and noir. Even some French. No, this ol' boy ain't very cultured, but I'll try most...
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My Day—One Minute
So I’m trying to write and this cocky squirrel on the fence outside my window is chomping acorns and eyeballing me while I’m drinking tequila and listening to the Chambers Brothers and they’re telling...
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Living in a duplex in Hays, KS, next to a guy with a shit ton of boogers who never blew his nose. Driving around those old shale roads in my Toyota truck and parking at the entrances of oilfield lease...
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THUGHLIT–BACK IN BLACK
Most of you have probably heard, but in case you didn't, take notice: Thuglit is back, Jack. And nobody brings it like Big Daddy Thug-Todd Robinson-and his crew. The dirty deeds. The bad men. The fast...
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Sights
Peel a ripe mango and shove your nose into it. That's the smell of a frangipani blossom. Rocky the dog went out drinking again last night. Looks like its back to rehab for him.This is Spike. Spike's...
View ArticleWatery Grave Invitational Results
1st Prize: GENNY BOW by Chris LaTray ($50 & a bye into the next WGI) 2nd Prize: FOOTSTEPS IN THE DARK by Mike Wilkerson ($35 & a bye into the next WGI)3rd Prize: THE DROWNING OF JEREMIAH...
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The Season
Writing and just feeling so damn good about it, watching brown Anole lizards crawling on anything and everything outside my window and just plain happy that football season is here—Go Pack!Stay chill.
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The Re-Boot. Thuglit- September 1st, 2012
Thuglit's back and September 1st is the date to mark. Big Daddy's really opening things up here- Thuglit as a paying market. That's cash money, the dough-rae-me. Call it good for everybody submitting...
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Article 3
See that cat up there. Cat says buy the new edition of THUGLIT. Cat says his pops wrote a screamin' story for THUGLIT. Cat says if you don't buy, he'll show up at your house with knuckle dusters and a...
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EVERYONE LEAVES IN THE END
Put the cat down today. Old gal was with us for 13 years. Got her when we had nothing.We were living in an old trailer home in a cow pasture near Antonino, KS. An old farmer stopped by, had this little...
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DIRGE—68 at Shotgun Honey
Got a new story, DIRGE—68 over at Shotgun Honey. If you get a chance to check it out, I'd consider it mucho appreciado.The 700 word format was a challenge. A good challenge. The takeaway: The Shotgun...
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No Witty Titles Needed
The dire straits of our individual yet coherent situations. The relation is universal.Stay chill.
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