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December 7, 2019December 8, 2019

The Prelude To Fiction

essay by Lander Williams

The businessman parked his car to walk over to the man he’d observed living under the tree in the park for most of the year. “Why do you live like this?” he asked. The man under the tree asked in reply “where are you going?” He said that he was […]

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October 7, 2019December 8, 2019

A Strange Concert

Art by Lander Williams

(1382 words) Sandy and Brandt, both futurist novelists, attended the annual conference in Amsterdam.    “Things seem to be in flux,” Brandt said, “and we’ve got to go see what the future holds.” “What do you mean?” she asked “I can’t say exactly.” “You’re a writer.  You’d better figure that […]

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October 1, 2019October 2, 2019

A Swift Kick in the Ribs

Fiction by Lander Williams

(671 words) Jody had colored beautifully between the lines.  Then he wrote “I hate school” across the top of the assignment.  It seemed obvious to him that school was just as hateful to everyone else.  But he’d miscalculated badly. The classroom was ‘time-between-recess’ but recess only came twice a day […]

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August 22, 2019December 8, 2019

Inter-generational Self-care

essay by Lander Williams

(635 words) Ernest Hemingway, who I write of often, fought in WWI where in four years four million soldiers died along a 500 mile trench-line in northern France.  Unless you are a wounded American soldier, or from a gold-star family, we as a society don’t even come close to experiencing […]

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August 1, 2019December 8, 2019

Time Is On Your Side

essay by Lander Williams

(688 words) Recently, a friend recommended two books, A Brief History of Time and The Science of Interstellar.  Time is ironic, not what it seems. When you’re in the zone, clock-time flies by but the time inside your head, your being, slows to a pleasurable crawl where every detail of […]

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July 25, 2019August 3, 2019

Hunting Alone

Short story by Lander Williams

(559 words) He walked across the shallow pond.  He was a little drunk and struggled against the suction of the mud. He pinched the neck of the bird feeling the gravelly rice inside.  A group dropped down and he raised the barrel straight in front of him.  One slumped and […]

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June 9, 2019December 8, 2019

Teddy Roosevelt Was A Writer

essay by Lander Williams

(779 words) Teddy Roosevelt was a writer first, a soldier second and a politician third.  He was, also, a husband and a father.  He wrote books throughout law school and, eventually, dropped out to run for political office in New York.  That set the formula for the rest of his […]

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May 18, 2019July 28, 2019

The Job of the Novelist

Fiction by Lander Williams

(417 words) The kid reached into the darkness and pulled the book from the closet. It was by an unknown French existentialist. It must be a translation, he thought. His confidence in it, thus, shaken he began, nevertheless, to read: “The job of a novelist,” it said, “is to show […]

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April 4, 2019August 3, 2019

Our American Dilemma

essay by Lander Williams

(992 words) American people, like people everywhere, have a nature.  And human nature is such that, sometimes, we place too much value in what we don’t understand and, by not understanding it, invest it with some mysterious and unmerited quality which defies expression.  And here, that is politics. Americans are […]

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March 19, 2019August 3, 2019

No Smoking

Short story by Lander Williams

(636 words) They should have known people weren’t really reasonable when they saw they’d buy at a joint what they could get for 1/10 the price at the grocer. Maybe they go for the motion of the bottle lifted from the shelf and poured into piled saucers and brandy glasses. […]

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