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/ GreyThoughts.InfoLester Greenwald had an electric train set at 5; then again at 55—he had to find a hobby or be slowly driven mad by boredom and a nagging housewife when business was slow. Because he worked from home there was no …
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Hollywood has its many ghost stories: an ethereal Marilyn Monroe sashaying through the lobby of the Roosevelt Hotel; John Belushi’s shadow figure seen lurking about Chateau Marmont, a 1929 gothic-style hotel and bungalows where he OD’d on a lethal…
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I’m truly sorry you had to find my remains as such, but I felt that taking my own life was the only way out of my gnawing madness—a madness I can neither contain nor accept; a madness that has stalked me since birth and was strained to…
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Edgar and Joyce Kittman spent 95% of their 89 years of life together. Do the math, that’s an awful long time. (In this particular circumstance, the adjective ‘awful’ is used as a lenghty stretch of time and not as dreadful indicating …
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Adam and Eve were real, just not biblical. The sod-busting pioneers were dropped off here from another Garden of Eden deep in space to begin seeding this Garden of Eden like other Goldilocks orbs had been successfully seeded …
By CraigE
An appointment with a ‘pain…
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There once was a guy from St. Loo,
Who had not one ego but two.
He could feel light as a…
By CraigE
Lester Greenwald had an electric train set at 5; then again at 55—he had to find a hobby or be slowly driven mad by boredom and a nagging housewife when business was slow. Because he worked from home there was no …
By CraigE
Hollywood has its many ghost stories: an ethereal Marilyn Monroe sashaying through the lobby of the Roosevelt Hotel; John Belushi’s shadow figure seen lurking about Chateau Marmont, a 1929 gothic-style hotel and bungalows where he OD’d on a lethal…
By CraigE
I’m truly sorry you had to find my remains as such, but I felt that taking my own life was the only way out of my gnawing madness—a madness I can neither contain nor accept; a madness that has stalked me since birth and was strained to…
By CraigE
Edgar and Joyce Kittman spent 95% of their 89 years of life together. Do the math, that’s an awful long time. (In this particular circumstance, the adjective ‘awful’ is used as a lenghty stretch of time and not as dreadful indicating …
By CraigE
Adam and Eve were real, just not biblical. The sod-busting pioneers were dropped off here from another Garden of Eden deep in space to begin seeding this Garden of Eden like other Goldilocks orbs had been successfully seeded …
By CraigE
An appointment with a ‘pain…
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There once was a guy from St. Loo,
Who had not one ego but two.
He could feel light as a…
By CraigE
Youth! Youth! Sublime and heavenly! Blink though and you’re suddenly seventy! Distant memories are lucid and bright. What the f was dinner last night? Tossing footballs and plastic discs? Now nary impossible with …
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The Pillsbury, Connecticut, graduating class of 1938 didn't have much to dance about as the country was still slogging through a nine-year national economic depression. Duncan Arbuckle had even less to dance about at prom…
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If you have become road-weary …
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"If you ever plan to motor west,
Travel my way, take the highway that is best.
Get your kicks on Route …
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…I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Jeremiah…
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Death comes in threes. On March 3, 2023, inside Boston’s John P. Bedlow Memorial Hospital, the flatlined trifecta included an atheist, a Muslim, and a…
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… had their first fight over something that was supposed to be a romantic celebration of their perfect union–where to spend their first anniversary. The bride wanted the Caribbean; the groom, anywhere else that didn't perpetuate …
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… finished mowing the yard of the two-story house he and his bride, Heather, had just purchased and took 36 seconds to sit on the front step to wipe his brow and admire the monarchs flirting with the…
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… baby boy named Frederick was given to Mr. and Mrs. Henry Phineas Freelander. Mom, Emilia, realized the maternal family rumors were true when her son was six–that’s when little Freddie began going around the cabin humming…
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… the owner of Carter’s Auto Salvage, Danny Lee Carter, spiked his wife’s and two tot’s supper Coca-Colas with crushed-up Ambien tablets, then dragged their somnolent bodies from the…
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The story of a D+ Writer
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… lifetime of stringing paragraphs together, justified ones even, and not one character—in his case represented as a fictionalized person, letter…
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… think people suffering from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder are odd then consider the case of Randy Boyle. Going beyond the weirdness of doing everything in a…
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…professor’s unabashed praise of Calvin’s “exceptionally florid storytelling style” compelled him to make the life and career-changing decision to go big time. He was sure that with his diploma in hand, and the polished talent it took to earn it, he would be a LaLaLand A-Lister in no time; besides, with the...
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…n debt Iowa farmer Joe Ferguson loved his firearms—had a custom made oak cabinet full of the pampered killers of various calibers and an arsenal of ammunition…
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Based on a true story.
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...he never smoked it, Harry Musterman loved grass; the other kind—the monocotyledon herbaceous plants whose seeds were...
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A woman cures her.... .
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...early on with a deep-seated identity crises brought on by the general anxiety disorder gifted to her by a dysfunctional family, Janine Fetterman always felt more at ease...
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A true tale
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...family is generally ambivalent about numbers: they seem irrelevant for measuring our ages and we don’t...
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A little tale about a..
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Suzanna Medevitch lived at a big house in the snow-slammed city of Fairbanks, Alaska. She was a filthy rich, mean old bag, age...
Karma in the Clouds
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…was born the fourth of five to another single parent in the slums of Detroit. In the city where the majority of citizens are black, unemployed, and poor, he was just…
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…the President’s cabinet members, all 535 United States Congressmen, and the Pentagon’s top echelon (plus those who bribed them enough), took refuge from World War…
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A Christian’s indoctrination…
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... days a week, 14 hours a day to keep the colony clean with that promise of a better future drilled into him, one filled with holy happiness and a heavenly afterlife. With no sanitation union coming to his support, he worked…
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