Cry Over Spilt Ink

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We have three weeks until we vote in one of the most important elections in the history of this country. Already people are registering to make sure they are ready to vote. There are rumors of obstacles being employed to discourage people from voting. Know your rights. If you are a citizen of the United States you have the right to vote unless you are a convicted felon. There are some places that would like to enact laws to let convicted felons votes, so please check your voting laws in the area you live in. There has been a lot of discussion about mail in voting, but since I am currently residing in a state that allows mail in voting, I will be filling out my ballot as soon as I get it in the mail.

I will not advocate one candidate over the other. I just wish to encourage you to vote, because as stated previously, this is one of the most important votes in our nation's history and I want to be a part of it and I'm hoping you do as well. Nothing can get done unless we take the time to let them hear our voices.

Looking Forward

10/16/2020

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Well for the seventeenth time in a row my story has been accepted by Reedsy for publication on their blog. I have included that story on the web page that accompanies my blog. This time around I will feature "My Story" a nearly true account of my close encounters with the creatures of the Last Frontier when I lived there from 1995 to 2005 and some of the unusual conditions of living that close to nature.

Poetry: Laying to Rest Our Youngest: is a fictionalized poem about a father who loses his boy in the Trail of Tears and serves as a tribute to those who endured one of the most cruel parts of our history. Recently we have used our history as a weapon, warping it and reinventing it to suit our purposes, but while this is a fictional account it serves to demonstrate the suffering of the Cherokee Peoples.

Short story is "Cornelius the Immortal," another gothic tale about someone who wanders into the modern day after over three hundred years of rest. Some people do not always rest in peace as we have come to find out.

Book review is on Fredrik Backman's Anxious People which just came out in September. Once again he scores with his empathetic understanding of human nature.

Check out my flash fiction piece "Flower" which was selected for online publication. It will make you think twice about planting a garden.

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I went looking for a unique blog title as my previous one was "Lamplighters," but then when I left the company that was publishing my blog, they kept my title so I was left to try to choose a unique one that no one else owned.

When I thought what do writers do? They write with ink or used to. Often authors would refer to their filled garbage with discarded ideas as spilled ink. But that was taken...so I misspelled spilled to spilt and voila I got my blog domain...
cryoverspiltink... not genius, but as close as I could come. Enjoy.