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Heir Apparent: Part Two
Of course the widow didn’t spend every red cent of her husband’s earnings on building the apartment homes. But she came close. Naturally, things were tight at first. So she relied on her son to help stretch the ends. And he did. And that was a great comfort to her. Not that she doubted him, […]
Heir Apparent
There once was a young man born of a wealthy father. The young man wanted to make his father proud, as most young men do. And that was a difficult task. The father was an industrious type with callousness more prominent than his bushy eyebrows, and disdain more distinct than the amber streak in his […]
Marty Supreme: A Testament to Culture
Do not attempt Josh Safdie’s cinematic ode to chutzpah if you’re not up to a long trek with Timothee Chalamet portraying the world’s fastest talking, mouth breathing, needle nosed ping-pong prodigy as your guide. Just don’t. Trust me. You have better things to do than planting you forehead into your palm whilst muttering, “what the…?” […]
The Favor: Chapter Two, Section 2
Moe cradled the receiver between his neck and jaw and glimpsed the folds of hanging skin visible in the mirror over the chest of drawers. The weight loss was helping with the way his clothes fit and he was losing the paunch. His face, though, looked more drawn and haggard. The phone rang again and […]
The Gargoyle King of the Grotesque
The day before yesterday’s date, July 2, 2025, will be a footnote in history if, God willing, we have a history. On this day, hip hop impresario Sean Diddy Combs skated on the most serious charges in his human trafficking and sex racketeering trial. Mr. Combs was swatted with a conviction of transporting a person […]
The Favor: Chapter Two
Fifty-seven, fifty-eight, fifty-nine… She had always thought her mother’s vanity was cherry. So when she passed, Lonna bought a stool for it. Naturally, she paid for solid cherry. Come to find out, the wood was a less expensive poplar painted with a cherry finish. Sixty-four, sixty–five, sixty-six… Then she had to find another poplar one […]
The Making of The Coen Brothers Blood Simple: An Exercise in Rudimentary Gravitas
The Coen brothers are quite enamored with the droll Texan archetype. West Texan archetype to be exact. Case in point…pretty much the whole cast of No Country for Old Men (2007). I could go on with these quotes ad nauseum. I’m sure you could too. But this post isn’t about No Country for Old Men. […]
The Favor: Section Three
He downshifted and whipped into the oncoming traffic lane. Head to head with the Honda, he released the throttle and put pedal to medal. There would be no questioning if he got pulled over. Maybe a gentle scolding, but that would be that. He bisected the solid yellow line a good distance ahead of the […]
The Favor: Section Two
It was one of the weird things he thought about when he used to stay in high end hotels…had there ever been clothes in the dresser? …or chest of drawers as some called it. Like so many other things, it had to be quantified before he guessed. Was he staying in a standard room? If […]
All Things Thriller 