the words and worlds of John Robinson
A car crash took two things from Nolan Wright: his memory and his wife. With his memory damaged, he cannot remember the past and simple things everyone else in the world take for granted elude him. The damage done to him now threatens to have his young daughter, Ava, taken from him when he forgets …
We've had some wicked winter weather here in Tennessee this week. We had snow, freezing rain, ice, and more snow and ice. Just as bad as the threat of severe winter weather is the possibility of Tennesseans driving in those conditions. The frosty stuff does not play to our natural abilities the way mudding does. …
At some point in pre-history, a meteorite crashes to Earth. It lands on an island off the coast of what is now Africa and soon Nature reclaims the impact site, and the big rock with it. Time marches on, civilizations rise and fall, wars are fought, lines are drawn, maps are changed, and, as is …
I like movies and literature from bygone eras, and there's something about the 1970s which fascinates me. I was born in the latter part of that particular decade and that ends my intimate connection to it. I have a fascination with most time periods other than my own, and films and books provide a cheap …
During World War II, U.S. Marine Willard Russell finds a fellow soldier crucified by the Japanese. Slowly dying from torture and with no hope of survival, Willard shoots the crucified soldier to put him out of his misery. This sets in motion nearly everything that follows in The Devil All the Time, which offers a series …
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In the years following the Civil War, Sethe has made a home for herself at 124 Bluestone Road. It is the former home of her late mother-in-law, Baby Suggs, and she occupies the house with her eighteen-year-old daughter, Denver, and the ghost of her infant child whose tombstone is inscribed with only the name, Beloved. …
American Howard Hallenbeck is visiting Ireland to research a book he is writing about Christian churches and their pagan roots and influences. For this trip he has brought along his wife and two small children for a little family vacation. Of course his son and his daughter argue and they get on their mom's nerves, …
I don't write a lot of poetry anymore. I used to once upon a time, but my poetic muse has largely left me in the last several years. Every so often words or phrases invade my head, or something happens and bits and pieces work into something resembling a poem. These three, more or less, …
Betty Schaefer : I'd always heard you had some talent. Joe Gillis : That was last year. This year I'm trying to earn a living. Joe Gillis is a screenwriter in 1950s Hollywood and he's not having a very good go of it. He tries to hit up a producer at Paramount for work, but it flatlines. That's …
Yes, it is January 19th. Edgar Allan Poe was born this day in 1809 and I, your humble author, was born exactly 168 years later (Dolly Parton shares our birthday, too, so a happy shout-out to her as well). Of all Poe's stories and poems, "The Raven" is my favorite. It is a tradition with …
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