A stray cat named Frank took up residence on my porch. He looks Tuxedo except for his black chest. I've been feeding him for a few months. He makes a really strange sound when he speaks. Almost a screech from a violin that is weak and high pitched. He has always been docile and accepted his food. Never allowed himself to be touched and I respect his boundary. But today when I handed him the dish he leaped up and put a hole in my palm with a single claw. Took a while but I figured out that it was because I smelled like the dog, having just fed and petted him. Lesson learned.
@edgarblythe,
edgarblythe wrote:
A stray cat named Frank took up residence on my porch. He looks Tuxedo except for his black chest. I've been feeding him for a few months. He makes a really strange sound when he speaks. Almost a screech from a violin that is weak and high pitched. He has always been docile and accepted his food. Never allowed himself to be touched and I respect his boundary. But today when I handed him the dish he leaped up and put a hole in my palm with a single claw. Took a while but I figured out that it was because I smelled like the dog,
having just fed and petted him. Lesson learned.
I let the hole bleed, which it profusely did, and cleaned it rather hastily. Less than an hour later, I noted a black circle on my palm. The clawed hole was building a pool of corruption in there. I took some drops of DMSO and drops of activated chlorine dioxide, mixed them and used a q-tip to keep the mixture over the black spot. It didn't take long for the black to vanish. After a few minutes of this treatment the sore spot was indistinguishable from the rest of my palm and is not at all sore.
Many friends and family are buying my book. Imagine their shock when they discover themes favoring immigration, anti war, right to protest, calling R Reagan a basturd, a gay major character, and so on. I wonder if any will retaliate or if they will simply hide away or destroy it. Inquiring minds, as they say.
'Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.'
– Ezra Pound
The price of groceries skyrocketed these past few years; my car insurance jumped higher; there is an uptick in the number of homeless. If I sold my home and rented the money from the sale would be gone to rent in a decade or less. The red hot economy is for the well off, not the poor suckers like me.
This sounds amazing
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@PDiddie
Am reading now. It is
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Posts regarding my new book.
REview on Barnes and Noble: "C.M. Turner's first published work, this collection of short stories, speaks to us Boomers suffering in a world gone haywire from technology, bipolar politics, and relationships tied and twisted by the stresses of living in troubled times. I enjoyed it immensely and think you will, too."
Jesus Christ. Biden in MAGA attire complete with hat.
The book they don't want you to read. Denny the Wizard takes you where the skeletons hide. Gregor the hamster size cockroach has a greater IQ than the best of us. The guillotine can't silence the select group of heads. Bombs nuclear fall. EndEarthers got it all.
A book club has scheduled a reading and discussion of EndEarthers. These are tough audiences. I will get feedback from total strangers.
I'm honored to be your first review. I'm so proud of you for finishing this.
Your writing has always been impeccable and chalked full of wonderful imagery and fabulous tales. Finally having your stories bound in a book is a real treasure.
I've only skimmed a little of this so far, and I love it. I'm truly excited to be able to finally read your stories in full and not just in small posts here and there.
I'll update this as I finish it, but I'm already completely sucked in!
More reviews of my book.
"Gut geschriebene und ungewöhnliche Geschichten. Ich finde das Buch sehr unterhaltsam und sehr gut zu lesen."
"So much packed into one book!!"
Today I filled out my mail-in ballot. I proudly wrote in Cornel's name for pres.
Now is the time for all good bibliophiles to purchase a few copies of EndEarthers. You will wear out one copy by re-reading and need the other for the bookshelf.
A very diverse and intriguing collection of stories. The subject matter pulls you in. I enjoyed this very much.
- nother review
I wanted to price my book at ten thousand bucks a copy. That way if it sold just a few copies I would be ahead of the game. Turned out they wouldn't let me. So I sulked a while but finally allowed their pricing instead of mine. I think I may have made an awful mistake, but will have to give it time. Hopefully they know what they are doing.
a cracked egg the sun
spilled on the sky in haste
hungrily sopped up
My 45 year old and youngest daughter grew up with a nice girl who became a good wife and mother. The other day this girl succumbed to cancer. It's surreal losing people my children's age. The bell tolls for us all, randomly, age-wise. The older we grow the more we must toughen to it.
My fifty year old son contracted a kidney disease that soon had him draining fluid, primarily I think from his legs. I'd never heard of such a thing. Then his calf developed an abcess large enough and bad enough that twice the doctors put maggots on the wound. He said he thought they were considering whether to amputate. Eventually it showed signs of healing. He lost his apartment and job because of this. They put him in a nursing home to live until he gets on his feet - literally. He is doing much better but has way to go.
@edgarblythe,
My sincere sympathy. Best wishes for a speedy recovery.
