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Bill Burkett

Bill Burkett

FALL FROM GRACE, pt two

Impotent infidelity

19h ago

FALL FROM GRACE, pt two

19h ago

Bill Burkett

Letter about Koblenz

1965 — Helfand was the fingerprint and background investigations clerk. O’Connor managed the documents cage for everything classified…

2d ago

2d ago

Bill Burkett

Hawks Do Not Share

My memory played me false — again. I remembered the Hemingway quote as “Eagles do not share.” Old, disabled — fingers almost useless on a…

5d ago

Hawks Do Not Share

5d ago

Bill Burkett

Newspaper gypsy in Pennsylvania

In 1970, Buck and his wife were on the move again, driving west on the Pennsylvania turnpike. He was headed for a general assignments slot…

Nov 10

Newspaper gypsy in Pennsylvania

Nov 10

Bill Burkett

Almost everyone who has visited the Bahamas will tell you the same thing about my people; Bahamians…

— Virgil Henry Storr Journal of Caribbean Literatures

Nov 5

Almost everyone who has visited the Bahamas will tell you the same thing about my people; Bahamians…

Nov 5

Bill Burkett

Chapter 3: Florida

The old man retired from the fire department. He sold our house to a chiropractor who was going to turn it into an office on a street whose…

Oct 31

Chapter 3: Florida

Oct 31

Bill Burkett

Chapter 37: Fall from grace

Fall from grace: to lose favor, be discredited; in theology, relapse into sin.

Oct 21

Chapter 37: Fall from grace

Oct 21

Bill Burkett

Never, never, no matter what else you do in your whole life, never sleep with anyone whose troubles…

Chapter 19: Living with crazy

Oct 13

Never, never, no matter what else you do in your whole life, never sleep with anyone whose troubles…

Oct 13

Bill Burkett

Impaired judgment

Our grandmothers knew each other

Oct 9

Impaired judgment

Oct 9

Bill Burkett

Precursor to “A Bit of the Strange”

“An unexamined life is not worth living” from Plato’s recollection of the speech Socrates gave at his trial…There would be no need to…

Oct 2

Precursor to “A Bit of the Strange”

Oct 2

Bill Burkett

Bill Burkett

Professional writer, Pacific Northwest. 20 Books: “Sleeping Planet” 1964 to “Venus Mons Iliad” 2018–19. Most on Amazon for sale. Il faut d’abord durer.

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