Awhile ago, a little over a year, I started entertaining myself by rewriting one of my favorite poems by Edgar Allen Poe, the famous poem you probably know: The Raven. At first, I was just going to do a simple version, but as I was writing it, I was challenged to actually take the time…
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I was indulgent and I paid the price
I overdid it yesterday with pizza and I had soda for the first time in 9 weeks. It just about demolished my sleep. It’s as if my sleep was a gentle feather that should have lightly rested upon the bed, but NO! Along comes a hammer and smashes that poor little feather. Then comes a…
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Interview on DoubleTroubleDaddy.com
Take a few minutes to read this interview on DoubleTroubleDaddy.com by blogger Kevin ‘Spike’ Zelenka! READ HERE Find his Facebook page HERE
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Columbia
By J. Parrish Lewis remember when we muddied our elbows and knees, crawling through the creek? we kept our eyes trained for the enemy. we built forts above and below and sometimes in between we saw eyes staring out of sewers and imagined monsters it was probably only imagination because imagination plays and plays it…
Present By J. Parrish Lewis I drove into sunlight 63 miles an hour the Sun’s stare skipped across the heavens — a sharp pebble across the stream — godrays knowing as if knowing and illumination were one and the same I had to shield my eyes and pull down the visor but there’s no hiding…
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Moving Boxes
We recently moved to a new home, which meant we were in possession of boxes upon boxes upon boxes. We started out at the old house with everything (well, about half of it mostly everything) packed neatly into boxes. We forked over extra to have professional movers for a few hours, but amazingly we had much…
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The Goblin Road available for purchase
I have decided, after a lot of thought, to make The Goblin Road available for purchase again through Createspace.com and Amazon. Perhaps one day, I’ll find a more permanent home for this novel. It’s my first (ahem, complete) novel, so it has a cozy little nook in my brain. Ouch. If you want a paperback,…
The title says it: the two inventions that need to happen right away for the deaf community. We really just want to understand what is being said around us. Imagine, if someone who uses American Sign Language as his primary mode of communication was able to press a button on a smart phone or a…
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Re-committing to the Sequel
For a time, I began to feel that the half-written sequel would stay a half-written sequel, getting dusty in my computer until old age, or until the file format is no longer one that any computer can read. Recently I’ve recommitted myself to this effort, because I do care about this story and I do…