Ken McAlpine's Blog: The Hesitant Blogger, page 2

JUNCTURE serialized

Your philosophers, your God-fearing, your abortionists, they ask, “When does life begin?”

As soon as it can die.

Children.

We are all of us, heroes and villains.

Chapter Twenty Four of Juncture is up. Thank you so very much for reading…

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“Jesus,” said Marty. “They probably didn’t even know what hit them.”

“That is likely so,” said Able.


Chapter Twenty Three of Juncture is up. Thank you so very much for reading…

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Something like sickness sat in Santy’s stomach. He tried to think of the Heidi Klum, but all he thought was that they were very far from shore in a place like outer space.


Chapter Twenty Two of Juncture is up. Thank you so very much for reading…

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Imagine the carnivores of the seas, with little to nothing on their plate.

By 2050 there could be serious impetus to skip the swim.

Chapter Twenty One of Juncture is up. Thank you for reading…

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Altered migrations. Strange feeding frenzies. Never before seen behaviors. Unprovoked attacks. Shocking mutations.

They fit like puzzle pieces.

Chapter Twenty of Juncture is up. Thank you for reading…

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That there could be so much heat and pleasure was too much to ask.

Lovers and birds cried out in joy.

Love blooms. Chapter Nineteen of Juncture is up. Thank you for reading…


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The fishing boat bobs on the darkening sea. The three men stack the fins they have hacked away. How appropriate that the sun is setting. I approach on the surface so that they may see. Little rabbits, their hearts beat oh-so-fast…

Nature exacts poetic justice. Chapter Eighteen of Juncture is up. Thank you for reading…

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Did Nero really play the fiddle as Rome burned?

I don’t know, but I wouldn’t doubt it.


A mother says goodbye to her son. Chapter Seventeen of Juncture is up. Thank you for reading…

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I don’t know what makes the difference. Maybe evil is accumulated baggage. Maybe purity is holding few things close, only the things that truly matter. I don’t know. I’ll leave it to your disciples and philosophers.

A mother nearly loses a son. Chapter Sixteen of Juncture is up. Thank you for reading…


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They stood silent around the black form, but it wasn’t the enormity of the swordfish that earned their silence. The bulges and compressions rolled like waves across the body of the great fish…

Close encounters of the formerly surreal kind… Chapter Fifteen of Juncture is up. Thank you so very much for reading…

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