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Bill Burkett

The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to…

Chapter 51: Thomas Wolfe’s home town

4d ago

The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to…

4d ago

Énouement: the bittersweetness of having arrived in the future, seeing how things turn out, but not…

Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Feb 13

Énouement: the bittersweetness of having arrived in the future, seeing how things turn out, but not…

Feb 13

So I knelt there at the delta, at the alpha and the omega,

at the cradle of the river and the seas.

Feb 11

So I knelt there at the delta, at the alpha and the omega,

Feb 11

Yellow Convertible Afternoon

I was four years old the year America started building new convertibles again, instead of tanks and bombers. But I don’t know (and never…

Feb 8

Yellow Convertible Afternoon

Feb 8

For in and out, above, about, below, ’Tis nothing but a Magic Shadow-show, Play’d in a Box whose…

They sit with us…They tell us about the great big terrible things they’ve done and the great big wonderful things they’re going to do…

Feb 7

For in and out, above, about, below,
’Tis nothing but a Magic Shadow-show,
Play’d in a Box whose…

Feb 7

Sleeping Planet, Chapter Five

For Bradford Donovan, time had virtually ceased to exist. In the cell there was no night or day ‑ the lights were never dimmed or darkened…

Feb 6

Feb 6

Sleeping Planet

Chapter Four

Feb 4

Sleeping Planet

Feb 4

Chapter Three

Face down, thrashing on the sidewalk like a boated fish, Donovan struggled to reach the spare ammo clip in his jacket pocket. His legs were…

Feb 2

Feb 2

Every woman Anais Nin, every man a Henry

Cybersex: online sex-oriented conversations. First known use 1991

Jan 31

Every woman Anais Nin, every man a Henry

Jan 31

Chapter Two

Beneath the cloudless blue bowl of the midday sky, the Georgia countryside was a shout of autumnal color, stretching as far as the eye…

Jan 27

Jan 27

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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