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  • Rejection Regeneration 1: Jerry’s Secret

    Jerry had been excited about traveling from the created moon out behind Titan, where his family had lived since his great-grandmother had been a baby. He’d never been away from there, not even outside the atmospheric dome to visit Titan or one of the floating cities high in Saturn’s atmosphere. To have been hired on […]

    AR Neal

    20 May, 2022
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  • Rejection Regeneration

    So, Paramount+ has ‘The Stand’ series. No, this post isn’t about the whole thing going on with Johnny Depp right now. It’s about the character who was a writer. At one point, he and the female character he was really into talk about the time she told him to save his rejection letters. This is […]

    AR Neal

    20 May, 2022
    Rejection Regeneration
    writing
  • Choruses and Coke

    I’ve never understood some drugs, which I guess is a good thing. I never understood pills, especially since I like to read the labels of prescription medications. I’m not taking some tablet with a lovely hue and smiley face, just because. Just sayin. I even struggle to take nasal spray when I have a cold, […]

    AR Neal

    18 May, 2022
    Miscellaneous
    life
  • Don’t Feed the Reaper

    He snorted with disgust as he wiped crumbs from his lower jaw. His robes fluttered and clung below what pushed forward like a middle-aged paunch. He looked into his own eyes, a reflection in the hallway mirror of one more house, one more appointment to take the hand of someone on their way to eternity. […]

    AR Neal

    20 April, 2022
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  • Birth Day

    It is said that birth, the coming out of an infinite world and into this finite one, is painful — not only for the one ‘giving birth’ but for the one experiencing it. In most situations, such a description refers to a mother from whose womb a babe arrives. One way or the other — […]

    AR Neal

    15 February, 2022
    Non-fiction
    sadness
  • 2022 … And the Horse It Rode In On

    Yep. Calvin (of Calvin and Hobbes fame) sums up how I feel about 2022 right here. I said to at least four people yesterday that I’m already tired of ’22. The holidays are typically not easy but between Christmas and now has been a seeming never-ending slew of bad news. Between losses of life and […]

    AR Neal

    2 February, 2022
    Non-fiction
    Real life
  • Belated 2022 Greetings

    I indicated that I would post on Facebook, perhaps once per year. I offered that tidbit right around New Year’s Day, 2021. I asked that people not post in reply or on my feed through the year, since I wouldn’t be checking it much, if at all. Imagine my chagrin when I popped in there […]

    AR Neal

    24 January, 2022
    Non-fiction
    Real life
  • Christmas 2021

    I decided today would be my day to write out a few Christmas cards. In case you aren’t on my regular list, here is the letter I’m including in the cards of people to whom I usually send a yearly update. December 2021 By the dating of this short missive, I am sure you can […]

    AR Neal

    20 December, 2021
    Non-fiction
    holiday letter
  • The Horse Did Have a Name

    ‘Sure you don’t want a ride?’ We’d been walking for weeks and he hadn’t said a word until now. ‘Nah, but thanks kindly.’ I wanted a ride, but it just felt weird, especially since he’d just started talking out of the blue like that. Maybe if he hadn’t done that, I could have given it […]

    AR Neal

    16 December, 2021
    Flash Fiction
    Music
  • Entertaining Angels

    I stood quietly with sticky palms from the juice that dripped from the hunks of fruit I held. If you stay quiet, they’ll come to you the locals said. And don’t be afraid. They know when you’re scared. My Nana told me the story long ago about how her friend had died after seeing demons […]

    AR Neal

    7 December, 2021
    Flash Fiction
    conservation
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