Thursday, December 10, 2009

A Soldier’s State

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((November 24, 2009) (for: General Jorge Isaac V. Bardales)) An Article of Opinion by: Dr. Dennis L. Siluk Twice the pride double the fall—h...

Hell Bound

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((A Brief and Belief) (a point of view)) Who’s going to Hell? That shouldn’t be a hard question, but nowadays it seems to be. My mother once...

The Boy from the Midwest

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((From the book “Romancing San Francisco”; reedited, modified chapter, Two for independent story) (summer of 1968)) Master Yamaguchi Teaches...

Victor: and the Monkey Man

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((Miraflores, Lima Peru, 2008) (Based on actual events)) When your with someone twenty, thirty, even forty years—work with them everyday o...

The Bat

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(The Donkeyland Neighborhood, a Chick Evens Story, summer of, 1961) When you’re just fourteen years old, you don’t have sense enough to rea...

“The Cellar Apartment”

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((West St. Paul, the winter of 1967) (a Minnesota Chick Evens Story)) “Here!” I said “…come over here!” Now she, Phyllis, was...
Monday, December 07, 2009

Winter Houses

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(A Chick Evens story out of Minnesota, based on fact, 1956) The Icy-Mississippi Snow is on the sidewalks, in the streets, a thin layer cove...

The Vacuum Cleaner Department

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((A Chick Evens Story, 1966) (out of Minnesota)) They had brought in a ‘minute-man’ into the Vacuum Cleaner Department of the factory, th...

Sparky the Seal

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…and summer days at Como Park ((1956-1958) (Based on actual events)) At Como Park (St. Paul, Minnesota), in the Midway area (back in the ...

Machine Days

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((A Minnesota Story, 1950s, ‘60s and ‘70s) (Based on actual events)) In my younger days, there were more factories with machines—small and ...
Saturday, December 05, 2009

Behind the Sun

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(Inspired by real events)(Summer of 1936) She lived, during that summer of 1936, in a small room, on the first floor of an old mansion, nea...

Sister Death Watch

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(Inspired by real events)(November, 2009) With Eugene, there always seemed to be a contest going on, life was a dispute, although, it was ...

The Barber and His Joke!

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(Inspired by real events)(Summer of 1954) Harry the barber, had a little shop down on Jackson Street, by the open market, in St. Paul, Minne...
Wednesday, December 02, 2009

(Commentary on the Slave Trade):

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The Slave trade originated in Europe, and was in essence, a holocaust in the making. A massive murder, like in due time America would...

The Cycle of the Chicken

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The Cycle of the Chicken (A poem and a Commentary) The Poem A Chicken, it is born out of an eggshell After less than a month it lives as a...
Monday, November 30, 2009

Three Minnesota Vignettes

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Three Minnesota Vignettes I The Landlord King (Poetic Justice; a Minnesota Vignette, 2006) When Dennis Harley got into the tenant-housing bu...

The Saigon Affair

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(1972) Now in the spring of 1972, the streets to the prison camp were all bare and muddy; I rode to Saigon from the prison camp. We passed a...

Intense Curiosity

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(A vignette, about delicious Peruvian apartment Gossip, 2009) The tenants, and owners, especially the women folk had started gathering in l...

“The Vanquished Plantations”

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Opening Chapters to the unpublished book: “The Vanquished Plantations” Part one of book one, of four books and fourteen parts (Book One: “Th...