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Bill Burkett

unfinished novel

This is the opening of my third unfinished novel, originally intended as a fat “beach vacation read” in the words of my erstwhile…

9h ago

9h ago

Chapter 1

CAUGHT LIKE A GREENHORN

6d ago

Chapter 1

6d ago

George Orwell’s Year

In 1984, the militant tribes failed in their federal lawsuit against the Liquor Board. The Board disbanded my negotiating team with tepid…

Oct 18

Oct 18

Family Skeleton

as usual in fiction there is a story behind the story. I moved the setting from Central Georgia to Eastern Washington and introduced a slew…

Oct 7

Family Skeleton

Oct 7

Liquor Board blues

January 14, 1984 — the work stress piles up, blamed by the doctors for my high blood pressure. Certainly, it steals the pleasure from…

Sep 29

Liquor Board blues

Sep 29

Book, Interrupted

A Matter of Logistics — Book Two

Sep 23

Book, Interrupted

Sep 23

unfinished novel

“Footnote To History” was begun as my second novel while I finished my first, still in high school. That was “Sleeping Planet,” purchased…

Sep 22

unfinished novel

Sep 22

CHAPTER EIGHT SLEEPING PLANET

Chapter Eight

Sep 15

CHAPTER EIGHT SLEEPING PLANET

Sep 15

Home Front, 1966

The Fourth Division went to Vietnam from Fort Lewis, Washington, that year. By family tradition I should have gone with them.

Sep 13

Sep 13

Ferreting in one’s soul, one often ferrets out something that might have lain there unnoticed.

— Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

Aug 29

Aug 29

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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