Early in 1924, the junior senator from Montana, Burton K. Wheeler opened an investigation into misdoings in the Justice Department under the late President Harding. The airing of Attorney General … Continue reading There is Nothing New Under the Sun Dept.
It’s October, the scary month, with a Super Harvest Moon and giant skeletons appearing in front of every other McMansion. And with all the frightening things on the news both morning and night, I think it’s time for another Cautionary Tale.
It’s been hot and humid here for the past week or so, and that — along with the itchy spot just out of reach on my left shoulder blade — has me thinking about mosquitoes.
The press warned of a repeat of the “Hillsville incident of 1917.” That, of course, sent me back to my sources to discover what had happened in Hillsville, a little town in Carroll County, Virginia, not far from Mt. Airy, North Carolina. It was, I learned, a eruption of violence that ended in a cross-county investigation and two deaths in the new-fangled electric chair. It held the country’s attention until the sinking of the Titanic one month later.
Indeed, was even the cradle only a goochie-goochie cove of good-fairy cobwebs entirely devoid of hobgoblin shadows; or was it not also the primordial place of boo-boo badness and doo-doo-in-diapers as well?
Quote of the day My den. “When evening comes, I return home and go into my study. On the threshold I strip off my muddy, sweaty, workday clothes, and put … Continue reading Reposting from M.C. Tuggle:
Just submitted my first round entry to the NYC Midnight Short Story Challenge. The assignment was to write a fantasy involving vandalism which includes an interpreter as a main character. Whew! Totally out of my wheelhouse. #ShortStoryChallenge2022
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