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Category: Commentary

  • New Reviews And Other Literary Chatter

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    Matt

    Errant Dreams gave me a smashing review (http://www.errantdreams.com/reviews/2008/04/30); Edwin Turner at biblioklept (http://biblioklept.org/2008/04/30 writes:”…for all its monsters and perverts and manic depressive, (Down to a Sunless Sea) is never cruel in its darkness or unsympathetic in its distance. Freese creates real people here, and if we laugh at their pain,…

  • Some More Lemmon Meringue

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    Matt

    At 63 I have not done much in life or accomplished much. Does it really matter that one went to an ivy league school or that one was an alcoholic in the grand scheme of things? Doesn’t a defeated man feel as much if not more pain as a successful…

  • Difficult Passage From Mt.Lemmon

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    Matt

    I had a daughter once. She died a suicide at 34. She rotted for a week before someone inquired about her. When my wife and I entered her quarters, riven with books, everything had the smell of decomposition to it. Alcohol, soap, fresh air, Febreze, nothing could erase that nauseating odor.…

  • Lemmonade In Order Now As Explained

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    Matt

    I am almost 63 now, feeling much like I was at 30, 40 and so on, as if the body of a car ages and the transmission still hums along, unseen, unnoticed, still running in the way it  was when new. I prepare for my dying in several ways, non…