Author: Matt
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A Lemmonade Twist
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Last night at the Vistoso Commerce loop exit on to Oracle Road, I stopped the car and put off the lights. Dozens of small fires crept down the ridges of the Catalinas. It seemed a fitting salute to the July Fourth Holiday several days away. This morning the gullies and…
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There’s A Haze Along The Ridge
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There’s a haze along the ridge, Pusch Ridge, as they call it after an early settler of Oro Valley. Small plumes of smoke sully the slopes for a few miles like a sulphuric mountain acne. The heat of the day compounds all this, so that the light itself seems to have…
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“Top Of The World, Ma,” Cagney in “White Heat.”
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I’ve had little time to post a blog until now. Why? Down to a Sunless Sea has won an Indie Excellence FINALIST Book Award. It it also placed as a semi-finalist for the Reader Views Literary Awards. So, I composed a pr letter and forwarded the news to reviewers, bloggers and…
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Land And Marbles
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It was an aimless game with a competitive edge to it, much like the incessant, monotonous drive of Monopoly played for long Saturday afternoons. It whiled away the time and required some finesse with a pocketknife; we all carried them in the 50s, as much a symbol of maturity as…