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Bill Burkett

Cortisol released by your adrenal gland during stressful situations can result in adverse effects…

Piroshki (Russian, literally a “small pie”)are Russian puff pastries…stuffed with…meat, cheese, or vegetable filling— C/f Webster’s

1d ago

Cortisol released by your adrenal gland during stressful situations can result in adverse effects…

1d ago

The Ethics of Forensic Science

THERE IS AN amazing amount of politicking that goes on behind the scenes in law-enforcement. For almost a decade I worked where there were…

4d ago

4d ago

Chapter 52: Ohio road trip

Avenoir. N. the desire that memory could flow backward. We take it for granted that life moves forward. But…you can see where you’ve been…

Feb 23

Chapter 52: Ohio road trip

Feb 23

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

Feb 18

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

Feb 18

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

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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