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Bill Burkett

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

1d ago

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

1d ago

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…

6d ago

Chapter 3: Florida

6d ago

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

Intermezzo, noun: a short connecting instrumental movement in an opera or other musical work.

Chapter 15: Red-wing intermezzo

Sep 26

Intermezzo, noun: a short connecting instrumental movement in an opera or other musical work.

Sep 26

Bill Burkett

I Have Measured Out My Life in… Cowboy Hats

Apologies to J. Alfred Pruifrock, who famously measured his life with a different device:

Sep 23

I Have Measured Out My Life in… Cowboy Hats

Sep 23

Bill Burkett

Chapter 14: A woman of a certain IQ

Among other duties as assigned — of which liquor-board members always found plenty for me — I was sent to represent them on a committee…

Sep 21

Chapter 14: A woman of a certain IQ

Sep 21

Bill Burkett

I think a man can have two, maybe three, affairs while he is married.

— Yves Montand

Sep 20

I think a man can have two, maybe three, affairs while he is married.

Sep 20

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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