Variant cover to Doom 2099 #1, Gerardo Zaffino, 2019

Marvel Comics.

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Veterans Day 2021

Thank you, Veterans.

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Photo credit: A man and a young boy visit a gravesite in Section 60 of Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, Nov. 11, 2019. (U.S. Army photo by Elizabeth Fraser / Arlington National Cemetery / released).

People say this is a bad joke, but I Stan behind it.

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Cover of “See” Magazine, September 1955

Great West Newspapers, LP.  Cover photo is of Terry Moore.

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Cover to “Green Lantern Corps” #46, Patrick Gleason, 2010

DC Comics.

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“Life is only a borrowing of bones.”

In the end, everyone is aware of this:
nobody keeps any of what he has,
and life is only a borrowing of bones.

— Pablo Neruda, “October Fullness”



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Illustration from Of the Structure of the Human Body.  Andreas Vesalius (author and illustrator).  Woodcut.

There is some confusion about the date of this illustration.  Most sources point to the book indicated above.  Two editions were published; one in 1543 and one in 1555.

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Spillwords Press features “Ode to a New Black Ballpoint Pen.”

I am so honored to see Spillwords Press publish my short poem, “Ode to a New Black Ballpoint Pen.”  You can find it right here.

Thanks, as always, to Editor Dagmara K. for allowing me to be a part of this amazing community of writers!




I don’t even remember taking this photo.

And it isn’t well composed at all.

But it’s still interesting, because there’s a lot going on here.

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Nurse Your Favorite Heresies in Whispers