Welcome to the John Burt Society
This query was sent to me at goodreads.com by Darlene Hartman: Are you the same John Burt who used to design science fiction vehicles and had a virtual "used car lot" of wonderful ships and runabouts,...
View ArticleGo To The End of Jefferson Avenue, Then Stop
My physical therapist has prescribed 45 minutes of walking, daily. I'd like to walk a different route every night, but I'm understandably starting to run out of them.//The Magic Eight-Ball...
View ArticleI Visited the Poetry Dispenser on 5th Street Yesterday
The poem for March was from Rainer Maria Rilke:Live the QuestionsI want to beg you, as much as I can, to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions...
View ArticleDon't Like Feeling Like This
My new doctor has been modulating my supplements and my diet, and various reactions have been noticeable, but the most conspicuous ones are not enjoyable ones. In particular, on two well-separated...
View ArticleAn American Victory, Yes....
My third novel, "An American Victory",* currently in progress, involves war across alternate timelines, between three different Americas, none of which had our Civil War:One had a successful Southern...
View ArticleBooks By The Inch
We are liquidating a huge collection of science fiction paperbacks from the 1960s-2000s.We'll be listing them for sale as we are able to sort and pack them. Each list will contain about a hundred...
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Playing the "Playing the Race Card" Card
I get so sick of disingenuous right wingers playing the "playing the race card" card.//The Magic Eight-Ball says: "Speak the truth. It won't really shame the Devil, but you shouldn't be concerning...
View ArticleSomething About What You Carry Or Have Carried
I'm a member of an online writing group, which gives its members a one-line prompt to star from to write, and then we all write furiously for twenty minutes before hearing the source of the line,...
View ArticleThere Are No Creatures You Cannot Love
There Are No Creatures You Cannot Love “Aaaaah! A spider!”“Oh,” I said calmly. “Be careful not to hurt her.”“I hate spiders! I wish every spider in the world were destroyed!”I remembered saying almost...
View ArticleLet Him Live, Lord
[An older Creative Coven composition]"You like the idea of being able to dismiss him as just garbage,unworthy of life, don't you?""I'm just being realistic. You're the one romanticizing him assome...
View ArticleThoughts On Moving House
15 April The movers came today, and they were here much longer than I expected, and got a lot more done than I excpected them to, which was good, but also pushed back everything else in our day.The...
View ArticleSomething About What You Carry Or Have Carried
Something About What You Carry Or Have Carried“My brain hurts.”“Aww, sweetie. Did you take your pills?”“The usual ones: the blue one and the two aspirin. And I took the allegedly prophylacticpills at...
View ArticleIts Light Was A Thing Of Wonder
Its Light Was A Thing Of Wonder I woke up an hour before dawn, an hour and a half before my alarm was to go off. I thought about trying to go back to sleep, but the predawn light coming in the window...
View ArticleWhisper Secrets Only Your People Know
Whisper Secrets Only Your People Know“Oh, for cryin’ out sake!”Laurie laughed.“What did you just say?”“Something we say in my family. One of my brothers said it when he was very small, abd our parents...
View ArticleThe Answer Is Hidden And Folded Over
The Answer Is Hidden And Folded OverI walked around the room, pacing like a tiger. What was I going to do? As I walked between the shelf of preserved food which I had stored up as “treats” for when I...
View ArticleCatch Somewhere, My Soul
Catch Somewhere, My SoulPaging through digital images, I fall upon one I took of a wall in the old house. Strange, cryptic figures my son drew when he was six or so, too charming to wash off, so...
View ArticleA Darker and More Curious Matter
A Darker And More Curious MatterThe viewing room couldn’t have seemed less like a viewing room. It looked more like a tax accountant’s office than anything else. I understood that we weren’t going to...
View ArticleI'd Like To Make You Smile
I’d Like To Make You SmileI’d like to make you smile, but I know that a smile can’t always happen when you want it, in yourself or in someone else. Even so, it hurts me to see you so unhappy.I can’t...
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I Thought The Earth Remembered MeI’d come out to the property my parents had owned to conduct some business, which actually had nothing to do with that former ownership, or with my having lived there...
View ArticlePromised Walks Never Taken
Promised Walks Never TakenIn the face of an overwhelming loss like the death of a life partner of many years, grief can turn every small regret into a burden difficult to bear. You regret every missed...
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