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The Story of Billy
The holiday book sale was over, so I came up with a slightly different way to keep book sales going, with a short story....
Book 'Em!
The first This is True book, This is True: Deputy Kills Man With Hammer -- And 500 Other Bizarre-but-True Stories and Headlines from the World's Press, is finally off the press -- the third leg in making the publication profitable enough to continue (and enable me to quit my Day Job).
Letters that Make me Smile
Now and then I get a letter from a reader that really makes me smile. Last week it was from Michele in California:
Literary Allusions
This week's story slugs (titles) are all book titles, in case you didn't already notice and figure it out. They are:
Plane Crashes, Intelligence, Dad, and Jack Williamson
You may have heard about the plane "crash" in Denver Saturday. A Continental jet taking off for Houston veered off the runway, went cross country for a bit, popped up over an airport service road, then collapsed on its belly and burst into flame. No one was killed. One of those aboard was a cadet from the U.S. Air Force Academy in nearby Colorado Springs. He had planned to nap on the flight, but "We started bouncing, and I thought, 'That usually doesn't happen,'" he told the Denver Post. But it's the next part that really caught my eye: "When the engine caught fire," he said, "I knew something was wrong."
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