Quest for Air

 Artwork by Cedar Sanderson from interior of Space Cowboys 6: Fission Chips. It may even go with my story, "Love under a Purple Sky."There's something about the idea of the cowboy that persists in the imagination of humanity. It'...

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Nov 24, 2024
Affair in Trinidad

  I watched this 1952 black and white movie staring Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford during my workout sessions on the M5 over a few days or a week. It was directed by Vincent Sherman and features Alexander Scourby as Max Fabian, Howard...

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Nov 18, 2024
Cursed Ruins - beginning

 It's a tragic tale of youthful exuberance and avarice tainted by overconfidence unburdened with the requisite competence. It was the beginning of the quest for the Mysterious Cauldron within the Cursed Ruins. Our two young heroes were to fi...

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Nov 12, 2024
Omnibus Resurrection

 Steve A. Douglas His Omnibus Bill defeated, Henry Clay left Washington, but the "steam engine in britches" Stephen A. Douglas would attempt to collect the pieces of the failed bill. He concluded that combining the various...

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Nov 04, 2024
Raphael Sohnn

  Interview with Raphael SohnnAuthor ofThe Captains of Legend<!--[if gte mso 9]> <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE X-NONE...

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Oct 27, 2024
Mordor on my Mind

 Before we get to our adventure in Sauron's old 'hood: Cursed Canyon is here - click on the picture to check it out.This is the second Wyrd Western anthology from Raconteur Press and I'm pleased to say I have stories in both - in addition to...

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Oct 20, 2024
The Compromise compromised

 "Few things are certain in this life, however shrewdly a man may plan." -- Raphael Sabatini -- The Black SwanFun Fact:Back to 1850 and the Great American Compromise. The matter of Texas in Clay's Omnibus bill was tentatively resol...

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Oct 14, 2024
Cassie Greutman

 Interview with Cassie GreutmanAuthor of the Penchant for Trouble Series <!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-US...

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Oct 07, 2024
On the road again

  The season whispered that it would be wise to trade my Buttercup Rocinante, the steel steed, for the Rattlin' Battle Wagon, so I made the trip to begin the exchange. The morning of my departure carried a warning of colder weather...

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Sep 30, 2024
"Let him fire!" The debate heats up

 "My opinions, even if I were the president of the United States, are neither important nor necessary." - Zachary TaylorFun Fact:Henry Clay's 1850 Omnibus Bill for the admission of California as a free state; establishing territori...

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Sep 23, 2024