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What are "June Bug pajamas" ? (Senator Long is apparently wearing them on page 92). Thanks!

Talmadge Walker Sort of a dark metallic green color, like the outer shell of June bugs (which I think are a variety of Japanese beetle, but we always called them June…moreSort of a dark metallic green color, like the outer shell of June bugs (which I think are a variety of Japanese beetle, but we always called them June bugs when I was growing up)(less)

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Talmadge, the obvious question from my perspective, just how do you make the concrete move from "idea" to finalized work? I mean. . ., you seem to have such a finger on your own creative response. But how does a person get the story out of himself/herself. Enemas, a quick finger down the throat, of the Roman trick of a feather and a vomitorium aside, how do I get my first work onto paper?

Talmadge Walker Jim, This is going to sound like a copout, but there's no set way. I've had stories (pretty good ones, like Gilead in the Misadventures collection) th…moreJim, This is going to sound like a copout, but there's no set way. I've had stories (pretty good ones, like Gilead in the Misadventures collection) that I've bounced around in my head for years before putting them down on paper, while others are just a sudden inspiration (best one along that line is Christmas Eve off Main Street, currently available on kindle only but I'll be putting it in a collection soon for paperback). The novella I'm about to put out on kindle (The Pensioner) developed out of some family history I was researching a few years back, but I was prompted to write it now because of a couple of totally unrelated items recently in the news (a NC woman who was the last surviving person in the state to receive a pension, and the reaction to the Bergdahl prisoner swap). And once I start writing some of the stories seem to take a life of their own. I do have a preference for full-circle type endings.(less)

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“Work hard, rock hard, eat hard, sleep hard, grow big, wear glasses if you need 'em”
― Webb Wilder

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“And that wasn't the first time it ever occurred to me that this world ain't run like it ought to be run a heap of more times than what it is.”
― William Faulkner, Tomorrow

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“Nothing on earth can make up for the loss of one who has loved you.”
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“There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be. And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.”
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“We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.”
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