Innocents and Accidents, Hints and Allegations

Occam's Razor is usually stated as "when you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." Facts, as President Reagan once told us, are stubborn things. They...

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Madeline is very tall, and she has a long neck that makes her look regal and elegant. I liked that. I knew what she was about to say, and I couldn't look into her kohl rimmed eyes any longer, so...

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I almost drop the clipboard. "Sorry," I say instinctively. The waiting room is empty, like my heart. "Sorry." It's a child's word. It can't support the weight of regret. "Sorry I spilled my milk...

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To quote Jerry Orbach's character in "Dirty Dancing", "when I'm wrong, I say I'm wrong." I was wrong. Tuesday's election has shocked me as much, I think, as any event in my life thus far. It real...

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Pure Slush's Matt Potter has seen fit to publish a story of mine, "Temporary", as part of his "Cake" theme. The story can be found here.

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To delve back into self promotion for just the briefest of moments, new books including stories by yours truly are available here, including the Pure Slush volumes "Five", "tall...ish", and "Summ...

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So, another mass shooting. It is an obscenity that I have to write that sentence. Mass shootings should be as rare as hen's teeth, as uncommon as Halley's Comet or a Bartolo Colon home run or a m...

http://innocentsaccidentshints.blogspot.com/2016/06/the-center-cannot-hold-thoughts-on.html

"Balance of power?," she said. "Power doesn't ever balance. Someone always has more." I was reading "The Oil Kings", a nerdy book about petroleum. She had a Bolano paperback on the table in front...

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"It Is What It Is. Until It Isn't." -Spongebob Squarepants

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The men walked up the hill away from the house. Their footsteps were silent in the snow, and their breath formed plumes in the air. It was a mile or so back to the dirt road where the car was. T...

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I couldn't really sleep, and I'm running. I spend the night drifting slowly between the harsh light of yet another Sportscenter, bright smiling eyes delivering late baseball scores, and an unrea...

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It didn't solve anything. That wasn't the point. It was dumb, and it shortened your life, and it made everything smell bad. You couldn't do it anywhere anymore. It was incredibly expensive. Stra...

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The red leather toe of her shoe made tiny figures in the air between her and I. "Want to know something?," she said. "I'm really only seven. I was born on Leap Year Day." I looked at her black h...

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When she accused me of stealing, when she said she was out of milk when she wasn't, I didn't roll my eyes. I reminded myself, she was a lady, she had been young and beautiful once, she had raise...

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"Besides, it's only a piece of paper," he said, staring into the computer screen. She could hear the roar, tinny and detached, of a dragon. She thought about her little sister's wedding, the stu...

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I knew her name was Mercy, only because our last names were similar, and sometimes I would get her mail. She had worn long boots over very tight jeans, and her beautiful tan face looked eerie in...

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"What brought this on?," he said loudly. She hated when he said that. The very idea that single thoughts follow from single incidents, that any of her tears were brought on by anything short of ...

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"Yes," she said, and then fell silent. Her face was unsmiling, but not entirely serious. She had a small scar on the bridge of her nose. Her eyes were brown, betraying no hint of turmoil. Her ch...

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The Mighty And Powerful Pop Culture Beast has published my review of Amazon Studios' "The Man In The High Castle"

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They are walking. The camera is off center, so it looks like they are looking at someone, towards someone, who is to the camera's left. He is smiling. He knows how lucky he is. She is smiling to...

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"Where did you get this?," he said to me. I looked up at the officer, his chest broad and strong under the navy blue uniform. "BERRY,"

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"I always look back," she said. "Everything is in the past. Everything good, anyhow." She was outside, sitting at a gray metal table, ignoring the no smoking sign on the wall behind her. I was s...

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A new book review of mine is available for your perusal here.

http://innocentsaccidentshints.blogspot.com/2015/07/last-call.html

This is my latest review at Garon Cockrell's Pop Culture Beast

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Garon Cockrell, who is as friendly and sweet as his name is fun to say, has published a film review of mine, for "Advantageous", here.

http://innocentsaccidentshints.blogspot.com/2015/06/advantageous-at-beast.html