Tag: Novelist
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Where did democracy come from?
Hello My Flames Have you ever wondered about democracy? I do. Especially these days as we deal with a brutal two-party system in this country. The word democracy comes from two Greek words. Demos, people and kratos, rule or power. Therefore, the word means rule by the people, or power of the people. In five…
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Warm Pie
This is from a short piece published back in the eighties. I’m working on a horror anthology and stumbled across this in my story folder. Enjoy! Warm Pie Keyboard wears a cloak of innocence, fooling outsiders into believing it is the static plastic input device they see. Yet with me, the familiar creator-lover, Keyboard…
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A Little Wednesday Navel Gazing
From the News: According to my CNN news feed, the country of India has a mysteriously low death rate from Covid-19, like 800 out of more than a billion, whereas the US has more than 59,000 deaths out of only 309 million. I find this very interesting because early estimates predicted that the highly contagious…
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Are we our own aliens?
Interesting article today on my news feed. NASA has discovered, after much testing, that the brains of astronauts who spend long periods of time in space can increase in volume (white matter) including more cerebrospinal fluid. Also, that their eyesight can be affected due to swelling of the optic nerve and various other abnormalities. While…
