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Dreams Will Come True

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 I don't know if this will be my last post here but if I continue posting, you know it wasn't.  I keep feeling a magnetic drive to head to Israel.   I have longed, nay dreamed for this opportunity to travel there since I was 40 (and that was after my 'midlife/existential crisis').   I do not know what tomorrow will bring but I just want anyone and everyone to know that if I ever said anything to offend you, I didn't mean it personally.   I am blunt and I speak the truth.   I have tried to be a friend and half the time I'm either wrong or I'm 'part of the problem'.   One group I happened to belong to quoted scripture and said I was a 'helpful idiot', which hurts me that much more.   So, until I am spoken to, I retain silence.   Silence means I will not hurt someone or wound them.   I am not here for that.  I am here to enlighten, awaken, stir, exhort, etc.   I know it is not a simple ...

Untouched Whiskey

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  Table of Contents Author’s Note Chapter 1—The Light Dims Chapter 2—Beware of the Docks !   Chapter 3—Their First Meeting Chapter 4—Unlikely Allies Chapter 5—Reopening Silas’ Cold Case Chapter 6—Book ‘Em Chapter 7—Rest Easy Epilogue         Author’s Note:   I’m revising a character I created was initially Marvina before she existed in canon but instead, I recreated her.    Welcome to Mavin Bellwether, and her father, Silas Bellwether.    Her mother’s name was Clara.    She died young due to cancer.    ‘Abundance grows where faith flows.’—Celestial Raye, YouTube     Chapter 1—The Light Dims             Silas Bellwether had been known as ‘The Bell That Rings’ his entire life.   He was clairvoyant, clairaudient, clairsentient, and clairalient.     He had been born with these gifts and could alway...

Detective, Interrupted

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  Table of Contents Author’s Note Chapter 1—Father Son Bonding Chapter 2—That’s…Odd… Chapter 3—New York, Circa 1933 Chapter 4—As Luck Would Have It Chapter 5—Encountering Tesla Chapter 6—Not Alone Chapter 7—Growing Up Fast Epilogue     Author’s Note:    I have found recently that fanfic writing has been extremely cathartic.    Only currently have I begun watching Spider Noir, which was as close as I was going to be able to get to Nic Cage after everything I have been through after a hellacious dumpster fire week.    Like a phoenix, I have been able to rise from the ashes of defeat as always, pick myself up, dust myself off and ‘pull myself up by my bootstraps’ as dad always used to say.    I have found memories that made me smile and contemplate how far I have come and I know that I have ‘miles to go before I sleep’.    I know not everything is straightforward and there are many pathways but all I h...

So Much in Common

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  Table of Contents Chapter 1—Creepy Stuff Happens in Nowhere Chapter 2—Just Another Cuckoo Day Chapter 3—‘Well, It All Started…’ Chapter 4—‘It’s a Lost Narrative’ Chapter 5—A Little Help, Please ? Chapter 6—A Familiar Graveyard Chapter 7—The Final Shard Epilogue   ‘It ain’t no superstition.   It ain’t no boogaloo.    When the devil comes, he comes for you.’—some lyrics from Boogaloo as sung by Black Market Vinyl       Chapter 1—Creepy Stuff Happens in Nowhere             Courage was relaxing, enjoying a typical quiet afternoon with Muriel on the front porch.   Eustace was rotting his brain with his usual intake of television.    Out of the blue, the ubiquitous weatherman Nowhere had trusted appeared on the screen.               ‘We interrupt this program to present a weather warning.  ...