Christopher Zoukis's Blog, page 28
June 9, 2014
June 6, 2014
Caryl Chessman - 3
Finally, on May 2, 1960, Chessman was strapped into the chair in the gas chamber at San Quentin. As the straps were tightened, his attorney Rosalie Asher was in Sacramento, presenting a motion to Judge Goodman of the California Supreme Court. Judge Goodman was intrigued by her presentation, but needed more time to study it. Rosalie Asher told him there was no time.
Judge Goodman issued a one-hour stay of execution so that he could study the motion. He instructed his secr...
June 4, 2014
Caryl Chessman - 2
By Christopher Zoukis 
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His name was Caryl Whittier Chessman. Born May 27, 1921 in St. Joseph, Michigan, he died May 2, 1960 at San Quentin Prison, San Quentin, California. He was executed by the order of the State of California.
His life, though simple in one respect, that he spent most of it in one prison or another, was enormously complicated in many other respects.
The beginning of the end began in 1948. Caryl had just been paroled from prison when the police arrest...
June 2, 2014
Caryl Chessman - 1
By Christopher Zoukis 
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A few years ago, in 2004 to be exact, Rosalie Asher died. After her funeral, her niece Bonnie Fovinci was sorting through Rosalie’s office, making two piles of stuff. One to save and one to throw out.
She picked up a black vase from the shelf next to Rosalie’s desk. Junk, she thought, preparing to toss it on the ‘throw out’ pile. Instead, she weighed it in her hands. It was heavier than a vase needed to be. Looking closely at it, she discover...
May 28, 2014
Sons of God - Part 2
By Christopher Zoukis 
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One prominent tale of the Blue Men goes thus:
“A fishing trawl passed through the strait on its way home after a day of heavy fishing. A light fog stood upon the carpet of a gray sea. Lookouts were posted. One of them spotted something floating on the suface of the sea off the starboard bow. It was a Blue Man fast asleep in the water.
“Quickly and silently, the fisherman netted him. Taken on board, he was bound hand and foot. His s...
May 26, 2014
Sons of God - Part 1
Image courtesy cryptidchronicles.tumblr.com-By Christopher Zoukis
No one is really sure where this fairy tale originated. Some scholars say that the story of the Blue Men came from Morocco, through the Berber traders as they sailed north to do business with the Scottish islanders. The faces of the Berbers were glossy blue in color. A color caused by the pigment they used to dye their leather merchandise. When business went bad, the Berbers became pirates, sailing the strait looking for ships...
May 23, 2014
News
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Recent publishing news: College For Convicts (tentative title) will be published by McFarland & Co.
I have signed a publishing contract with Headpress, a U.K. publisher, to produce a book on the East Coast Bloods.
And I hope to soon announce some exciting news in the fiction arena. Stay tuned!!
May 19, 2014
May 16, 2014
Imagination - 2
By Christopher Zoukis 
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I’m actually going somewhere with all this information, trying to tie it all together. Here’s the point:
There was once a woman named Margery Winifred Williams. She was lucky. Her process of ‘becoming’ Real occurred while she was very young. Her father, who was a Real person, encouraged Margery ‘to become.’ He transmitted his love for literature to his daughter, and her addiction to read soon transmuted to an addiction to write, to cre...
