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Mark Swain
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Mark Swain
Knowing I'm a writer but not going around telling people "I'm a writer" (I don't want labels). I also find that I learn by writing. Too many writers are focussed on "telling".
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Long Road, Hard Lessons
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2012
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How to Cure Chronic Prostatitis and Get Your Life Back: Answers for sufferers of prostate issues
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Special Treatment and Other Stories
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2013
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Stories To Tell Your Dog
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2014
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The Six-Fifty (Excerpts From Special Treatment & Other Stories Book 2)
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2013
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The Poledancers (Excerpts From Special Treatment & Other Stories Book 3)
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2013
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Leila's Dowry
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2013
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Special Treatment: Single Story
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Open This Box!
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IRON HORSE
A Taste of the New Book
Sometime around October, my new book of short travel stories will come out. To bridge the gap, here is a taste of what is to come. It is a story based upon an experience related to me by someone I met on the road quite a few years ago in Canada. I hope you like it - it's a freebie.
Iron HorseIt was back when he was living alone in the shack. A long hard winter had kept him i Read more of this blog post »
Sometime around October, my new book of short travel stories will come out. To bridge the gap, here is a taste of what is to come. It is a story based upon an experience related to me by someone I met on the road quite a few years ago in Canada. I hope you like it - it's a freebie.
Iron HorseIt was back when he was living alone in the shack. A long hard winter had kept him i Read more of this blog post »
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“Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.”
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“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”
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“We are
Born like this
Into this
Into these carefully mad wars
Into the sight of broken factory windows of emptiness
Into bars where people no longer speak to each other
Into fist fights that end as shootings and knifings
Born into this
Into hospitals which are so expensive that it’s cheaper to die
Into lawyers who charge so much it’s cheaper to plead guilty
Into a country where the jails are full and the madhouses closed
Into a place where the masses elevate fools into rich heroes”
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Born like this
Into this
Into these carefully mad wars
Into the sight of broken factory windows of emptiness
Into bars where people no longer speak to each other
Into fist fights that end as shootings and knifings
Born into this
Into hospitals which are so expensive that it’s cheaper to die
Into lawyers who charge so much it’s cheaper to plead guilty
Into a country where the jails are full and the madhouses closed
Into a place where the masses elevate fools into rich heroes”
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“An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.”
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“there is a loneliness in this world so great
that you can see it in the slow movement of
the hands of a clock.
people so tired
mutilated
either by love or no love.
people just are not good to each other
one on one.
the rich are not good to the rich
the poor are not good to the poor.
we are afraid.
our educational system tells us
that we can all be
big-ass winners.
it hasn't told us
about the gutters
or the suicides.
or the terror of one person
aching in one place
alone
untouched
unspoken to
watering a plant.”
― Love Is a Dog from Hell
that you can see it in the slow movement of
the hands of a clock.
people so tired
mutilated
either by love or no love.
people just are not good to each other
one on one.
the rich are not good to the rich
the poor are not good to the poor.
we are afraid.
our educational system tells us
that we can all be
big-ass winners.
it hasn't told us
about the gutters
or the suicides.
or the terror of one person
aching in one place
alone
untouched
unspoken to
watering a plant.”
― Love Is a Dog from Hell
