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                                                             UNWELCOMED GUESTS: A GHOST STORY

 Unwelcomed Guests was accepted for publication by Necrology Shorts in February 2010.                                                              UNWELCOMED GUESTS Will Trizma was a writer of ghost stories and mined the local countryside for legends and their settings.  The area abounded in both.  His wife, Joan, acted as his editor and sounding board for his ideas.  At times, the only comment…

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             ANOTHER RETIREMENT OBSERVATION

             ANOTHER RETIREMENT OBSERVATION I have reported, in the past, that ads saying they can tell you how much money you will need upon retirement to maintain your lifestyle, in my opinion, are scams. I feel the most important question which needs to be answered is how long you will live. The only people unfortunate to be able to answer this question with relative accuracy are those with a…

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                              MY SCAM EXPERIENCE

MY SCAM EXPERIENCE I was on my computer when I suddenly got a blue screen from ‘Microsoft’ telling me that I was being hacked it had been locked, and not to shut off my computer. Also, the message gave me a phone number to call. I called the number and was told all my personal information was at risk. They asked me for my cell phone number. I do not have a cell phone and that seemed to…

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                        HOW DO PRIONS REPLICATE?

                                                                       HOW DO PRIONS REPLICATE? Here’s the prion information you all have been anxiously waiting for. I never thought about this until I wrote Martian Rebirth, but think about it, prions are nothing but bits of protein containing none of the usual machinery, DNA or RNA usually required for multiplication of the organism. I’m not…

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                     A SCAM, IT’S NOT MICROSOFT

A SCAM, IT’S NOT MICROSOFT This post will be followed by another more lengthy post concerning scams I have experienced three times with my computer being locked with a screen saying Microsoft has found a security leak on my computer. There is usually a blue screen along with one or two others warning you not to turn off your computer. You are given a phone number to call. DO NOT CALL THE…

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WHAT IS AN 'INFO DUMP'?

                            WHAT IS AN ‘INFO DUMP’? What is an ‘info dump’? A ‘info dump’ is something writers try to avoid. In my opinion, an ‘info dump’ slows down the story and may result in boring the reader. Here is the condition which could result in an ‘info dump’ if the writer is not careful. It would be interesting if you now thought about some of the stories you have read and whether…

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A LOOK AT A FORGOTEN HISTORY

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   PRIONS AND THE MARS INVASION OF EARTH

PRIONS AND THE MARS INVASION OF EARTH While writing Martian Rebirth I asked myself, “How could enough prions, floating through space, be able to infect an entire planet. This recently resulted in a look at prion replication.  Also, in avoiding including this information, I avoided an ‘info dump’. The next two posts will involve an explanation of what an ‘info dump’ is and a look and prion…

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MARTIAN REBIRTH ANALYSIS

                           MARTIAN REBIRTH ANALYSIS I mentioned before I posted Martian Rebirth that an Earth invasion was involved. That the invasion did not involve animal, vegetable or mineral. Now you know that the culprit was prions, those small pieces of protein known to cause disease, here on Earth, such diseases as mad-cow disease and its human equivalent. And these little guys are…

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MARTIAN REBIRTH, CONTINUED

MARTIAN REBIRTH Jeff Granger and Tom Nariba, mission specialists and the first men chosen to walk on the surface of Mars, waved to the cheering crowd as they approached the spacecraft that would take them on their journey.  Behind them came Bill Griss, copilot, and Donald Summers, mission commander.   They would remain in orbit around the red planet, mapping and performing scientific studies…

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MARTIAN REBIRTH, ANOTHER INVASION ATTEMPT

                                           MARTIAN REBIRTH The last Martians clung desperately to life, knowing their situation was hopeless.  Still, they practiced a truth known throughout the universe; life is precious and vigorously preserve. But their society was doomed.  The underground cities they inhabited were littered with corpses. Their scientists had predicted this turn of events, but…

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ANOTHER INVASION ATTEMPT

                       MARS TRIES ONCE AGAIN TO INVADE EARTH My next post will be my short story Martian Rebirth published by Bewildering Stories in 2007 and Books To Go Now in 2011. In the story Mars is attempting to occupy our planet. But this time the plan is nothing like what was attempted in the past (you understand we are talking fiction, as far as I know). The method being used is quite…

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THE CHANGING TIMES

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THE UNIVERSE IN BALANCE, A REJECTION IN ERROR

THE UNIVERSE IN BALANCE, A REJECTION IN ERROR You may find this post interesting after reading my previous post a short story, The Universe in Balance. Or perhaps it will spark your interest in reading the story if you haven’t done that yet. I submitted the short story to a publication where it was rejected. The editor stated that what occurred in the story could not happen. This is because it…

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THE UNIVERSE IN BALANCE, A SHORT STORY

                                             THE UNIVERSE IN BALANCE As mentioned earlier this story was recently published by The Corner Bar. Here is a link to the publication. http://cornerbarmagazine.com/ God does not play dice with the universe.                                          —- Albert Einstein God not only plays dice; he also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be…

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A SAD TRUTH

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THE UNIVERSE IN BALANCE, THE STORY’S HISTORY

  THE UNIVERSE IN BALANCE, THE STORY’S HISTORY My next post will be my short story, The Universe in Balance, recently published by The Corner Bar. But before I post it I thought I’d tell you something about its history. This story is one of my first attempts to write a short story some twenty years ago. It has had a long journey through many edits. All along this story’s journey I have felt…