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Posts Tagged ‘Dystopian Fiction’

What Gets You Hot and Bothered During This Crazy Summer of Ours?

By Janet Stilson | July 20, 2021 | 0

Remember that old song: “Roll out those lazy hazy crazy days of summer — those days of soda and pretzels and beer”? At the time I first heard Nat King Cole croon it, I was a kid and enjoyed the romantic notion. Now I still love the summer. But when I consider my laziness, thoughts…

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How Small Pebbles (And Paul Newman) Illuminate Gaps in My Heart

By Janet Stilson | July 6, 2021 | 0

It happened again – a trigger that jolts me into a memory when I least expect it. Last weekend, I watched an old Paul Newman movie, HARPER, with my friend Doris. Newman leads a cast that is pretty iconic: Shelley Winters, Lauren Bacall, Julie Harris, Janet Leigh, Robert Wagner – with a screenplayby William Goldman.…

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Miles Davis, Mysterious Birds and the Unstoppable Urge to Soar

By Janet Stilson | June 29, 2021 | 0

There’s a bird that sings outside my window almost every morning with the most haunting, flute-like melody. How can three notes, repeated over and over, be so captivating? Okay, I admit, Miles Davis’s tune “So What?” kind of made it clear that can be done in two notes – and it’s no wonder that Erykah…

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