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Bill Burkett

Bill Burkett

AKA Ms Walter Mitty

Words from a 1967 Army notebook kept for future use by a 23-year-old certain of his destiny as a great writer: One of the best things about…

17h ago

AKA Ms Walter Mitty

17h ago

Bill Burkett

Chapter 9: Coming in from the cold

The long cold winter spilled over the Cascades with a vengeance the week before Christmas. The blonde and I rendezvoused at a waterfront…

4d ago

Chapter 9: Coming in from the cold

4d ago

Bill Burkett

Addiction

Warm June evening on the Boulevard; every café has its street side opened up to the sidewalk and the outside tables are full. The…

Sep 1

Addiction

Sep 1

Bill Burkett

Chapter 8: Long cold winter

It was shaping up to be a long, cold winter. They come along once in a while, even in the Pacific Northwest. It’s always a cold winter East…

Aug 26

Chapter 8: Long cold winter

Aug 26

Bill Burkett

Point of View

I wrote this sixty years ago in a dingy newsroom after a day of firsts in my fledgling cub reporter career. First time phoning in a story…

Aug 26

Point of View

Aug 26

Bill Burkett

Chapter 7: Blonde Luck

“In for a dime, in for a dollar”…is the American version of an older English proverb “In for a penny, in for a pound”… first recorded in…

Aug 22

Chapter 7: Blonde Luck

Aug 22

Bill Burkett

Deux Rochelles

Workings of memory are always a mystery. This is a story I wrote years ago that I don’t think ever made it into one of my published…

Aug 22

Aug 22

Bill Burkett

Out Island fantasy

Chapter 55: Fourth intermezzo —

Aug 19

Out Island fantasy

Aug 19

Bill Burkett

An Eighty-Year Old Ponders

Eighty going on 81, besieged by chronic pain and chronic fatigue. I have been housebound eight months, after a painful fall on the front…

Aug 5

An Eighty-Year Old Ponders

Aug 5

Bill Burkett

She ain’t ashamed to be a woman or afraid to be a friend

I don’t know the answer to the easy way she opened every door in my mind… But…lovin’ her was easier than anything I’ll ever do again

Aug 3

She ain’t ashamed to be a woman or afraid to be a friend

Aug 3

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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