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Month: May 2018

Novel 2 exercise: no copyright, free to whoever wants it

“Damn it, there’s no sugar.” Fred looked up from his smartphone.  “What, we’re out of sugar?” “Yes.”  Nadia sat down at the dining room table and put her cup down.

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    • About
      • Finding Oliver
      • Ingratitude
      • Three Oldsters on Thanksgiving
      • I am Racist, a chapter of Kick Me
      • Thoughts About Seventeen Dead Children
      • Kick Me, Part 3: I am the World’s Worst Clown
    • Doom, Camus, and Breakfast
  • Fiction, Misc.
    • Hap: The Story So Far
    • Hap the Crystalwright: Part One
    • Hap the Crystalwright, Part Two
    • Hap the Crystalwright, Part Three
    • Enchanted House
    • NO-SEE-UM
    • Classical Music We’ll Never Hear
  • Books, Reviews
    • The Stranger, by Albert Camus: A Consideration
    • My Best Books
    • Book Thoughts 1: Meaning of Life and Self Development, part 1
      • Book Thoughts 2: Meaning of Life and Self Development, part 2
      • Book Thoughts 3: Philosophy
      • Book Thoughts 4: Politics, Economics, History
      • Book Thoughts 5: Psychology, Mind, Human Nature
      • Book Thoughts 6: Novels and Plays
    • Four Books: Prison Diary
      • A Stack of Books: Prison Diary Excerpt
      • More Book Thoughts from My Prison Diary
      • Prison Diary: Books and More Books
      • Prison Diary: A Potpourri of Books
    • Shakespeare’s Tragic Heroes and the Value of Literature: Prison Diary
    • Joseph Campbell: The Power of Myth (Prison Diary)
    • Dobyns on Metaphor, and Henry James. Prison Diary Extract
    • A Discussion of To Kill A Mockingbird
    • On Reading Charles Bukowski
    • Prison Diary: Hemingway’s “Macomber” Story
    • Email to a Classics Book Discussion Group
  • The Bleak Philosophy
    • The Ten Percent Solution
    • Philosophy Today: Diary 9/11 to 9/12/21
    • Getting Started in Philosophy
    • Epistemology: Models & Mysteries
    • What is it Like to be Me?
    • Knowledge and “Christopher Columbus”
    • Religion, Morality, and the Meaning of Life: Prison Diary
  • On Writing
    • Astronomy for the Writer
    • Notes of a Novelist
    • Expressing Thoughts in Fiction
    • Metaphor Examples
    • “You Need an Angle”
    • The Subjective Microscope
    • “She was angry.”
    • Good Mornings
    • Character Names, Expanded
    • Tasty Words
      • Tasty Words: Other
      • Tasty Words: Verbs
      • Tasty Words: Nouns
    • Why I Write
  • Poetry
    • Recent Poems
    • Old Poems, Mostly Awful, and Thoughts about Poetry
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