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from the Spells, Space & Screams: Collections & Anthologies in Fantasy, Science Fiction, & Horror group.
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I had forgotten he had taken the same road.
The Town Manager (2003) by Thomas Ligotti ★★★½☆ This read like Soviet folklore by M. Night Shyamalan. A small town goes through a series of managers that tell the people what their jobs are then steal from them. One man finally leaves the town only to be offered the job of town manager years later.
No!!! Betty White is dead, she would have been 100 on Jan 17th!
TipToe by Laird Barron ★★★★★ “Wait… were you aware?”
“Of what?”
That sent shivers all the way up my spine and down again for more. I listened to the end three times.
The Beautiful Gelreesh (2003) by Jeffrey Ford ★★★½☆ “When finally down among the rocks, he would find the corpse of the new immigrant to the country without care and tidily devour every trace of flesh.”
A mutant therapist takes his victims pain, along with their lives and their flesh. After his incarceration and execution he become a legend. Perhaps one that never died.
Marlon Brando and the Indian Fish-In National Observer (March 9, 1964) ★★★☆☆ “In all, the whole affair suffered badly from lack of organization. Mr. Brando was undoubtedly sincere in his effort; he talked persuasively and at great length about Indian problems, but he seemed to have no strategy except to get himself arrested.”
Some good came of the mess.
Living in the Times of Algers, Greeley, Debs National Observer (July 13, 1964) ★★★☆☆ Really depressing piece on the hitchhikers he has picked up along his travels.
What Lured Hemingway to Ketchum? National Observer (May 25, 1964) ★★★☆☆ “Like many another writer, Hemingway did his best work when he felt he was standing on something solid—like an Idaho mountainside, or a sense of conviction. Perhaps he found what he came here for, but the odds are huge that he didn’t.”
No, probably not. Hence the shotgun suicide.
Chatty Letters During a Journal from Aruba to Rio National Observer (December 31, 1962)Oh my the adventures of traveling on a show string budget through South America in the 60s!
“I am working on my fourth case of dysentery, my stomach feels like a tree is growing in it…”
“Optimism is a rare commodity here, and the daily harassments of life in Guayaquil are just about as much as a man should have to bear.”
“…hopping across jungle and Matto Grosso, touring oil camps, and spending all my money on antibiotics.”
Brazilshooting National Observer (February 11, 1963) Observations on a military vengeance shooting at a bar.
The Inca of the Andes: He Haunts the Ruins of His Once-Great Empire National Observer (June 10, 1963) ★★★½☆ “But the Indians are still outside the windows, and if recent events are any indication, they are getting tired of having the blinds pulled on them.”
Observations on the great Indian masses of the Andes and their political potential.
Democracy Dies in Peru, but Few Seem to Care National Observer (August 27, 1962) ★★★★☆ “APRA is more than just another political party; it is a genuine threat to a way of life that was 500 years old when the U.S. was born.”
Kennedy’s support of democracy in Peru did nothing to keep the oligarchy from using their US trained military from overturning the election. But as long as things remained stable, and profitable for the literate working community, there was no protest.
Why Anti-Gringo Winds Often Blow South of the Border National Observer (August 19, 1963) ★★★★☆ A well thought out look at the cultural shocks of the Americans living in South America and the divide created.
Footloose in the Smuggler’s Den National Observer (August 6, 1962) ★★★½☆ Short travel log about his time getting drunk with natives in a lawless part of Colombia.
Traveler Hears Mountain Music Where It’s Sung The Chicago Tribune (February 18, 1962) ★★★☆☆ A quick travel log through dry counties and close knit mountain towns.
Fear and Loathing in Limbo: The Scum Also Rises Rolling Stone (October 10, 1974) ★★★★★ “The Deathwatch was finally over; the evil demon had been purged and the Good Guys had won—or at least the Bad Guys had lost, but that was not quite the same thing.”
No, it’s not. Nixon got a hell of deal with one last turn of the screw. The postcoital bliss of Nixon’s departure did not last longer than the rotor wash. Who really got screwed here?
In a 24 hour news cycle there is always room.
It will be a miracle if she makes it to the Naming Names part of a deal.
Fear and Loathing in Washington: The Boys in the Bag Rolling Stone (July 4, 1974) ★★★★★ “The trial of Richard Nixon, if it happens, will amount to a de facto trial of the American Dream.”
One for the books! No one but Hunter S. Thompson can so concisely dissects the policial landscape while being wildly entertaining!
I think in head full of ghost it was glass in the food but was it glass in we have always lived in the castle?
