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1) Old Josh, In - Buckboard to Ozark, '63
Author:
Dennis Siluk Ed.D.
Category:
Arts and Entertainment
Fourteen-years old, Emma Hightower, was a long-legged child, turning into a lovely reddish hair woman, which soon she'd be. Her thick red hair shined like a rainbow cast over the cornfields, with her blue eyes, and Charles Hightower was all too aware of the thumping hearts she aroused in town, but she wasn't. However for that day in August, 1863 she was more spirited, and akin to a tomboy.Josh's two older boys, Silas and Jordon adored her in that special warm way of older brothers do...
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2) Old Josh, In - "Breathin' Hard"
Author:
Dennis Siluk Ed.D.
Category:
Arts and Entertainment
(The Spring of , 1864)It now was spring, several months had passed since Josh had that sick bout, where Molly came over and sat with him in his shanty, he was sick, and in a way wanted to remain sick if she stayed to nurse him, but of course she didn't, she simply insured he was ok and abruptly left, because Josh was getting other ideas. And today, as other days, Josh was staring down towards the Creek, where Molly's little house was. Mater of fact, Silas was kind of getting tired of...
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3) Mount of the Moon (The Gypsy From Czechoslovakia)
Author:
Dennis Siluk Ed.D.
Category:
Arts and Entertainment
(Palmist) (Czech)It was told her at a young age, by her gypsy mother, she had the strongest looking mount of the moon near her wrist any psychic ever had, meaning in terms of a palmist hand, her abilities could be quite developed, and at an early age, she could read hands and faces, and fingers, in an instant,One dollar and five cents; that was all they had. All of it was in pennies. Pennies saved after paying the heat bill, the gas invoice, it sucked all the money up, that imp...
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4) The Yellow Planet (An Out of Sequence, 'Cadaverous Planet' Sketch)
Author:
Dennis Siluk Ed.D.
Category:
Arts and Entertainment
The trip was nasty, packed like bananas in a cargo bin, hurtling though space like an asteroid. Siren, and her two comrades, Tangor and Rognat, were with her, and they were for once not in the Black Galaxy, rather next door to earth's solar system. Which consisted of the planet Moiromma, which her mother was born on, and Ice Cap, its moon, and Cibara was nearby and the comet Sedna as large as earth's moon, and the unexplored planet called the Yellow Planet, which was on the same rotation as...
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5) Red Cross Foolishness
Author:
Dennis Siluk Ed.D.
Category:
News and Society
First of all I was not going to write the article, but the Red Cross is kind of forcing it, and my wife is pushing me, Rosa. I mean, they got their say, now leave it alone, it is old business, and the Red Cross on the man's sleeve may have saved the lives of fifteen people, in what is considered a war zone. You can't get anything better than that.The question comes up: Was the Red Cross emblem used with improper intent?Perhaps it was, and I'm sure it is not the first time this...
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6) The Ghost Stalkers - (Part Two To "The Hermit's Ghostly Dilemma")
Author:
Dennis Siluk Ed.D.
Category:
Arts and Entertainment
I stayed there that night, in Josh O'Hara's hut, in the Minnesota wild (Hibbing), thinking perhaps I could come to some conclusion what took place, and I felt as the uncanny night went on, death stalked it, I mean the ghosts that he so readily feared stalked it, so, he had a good reason to fear, I was not believing in his story at first, I am no detective, nor need I be, but they were out there, in the darkness breeding as I was breathing, and pacing within his timber hut, such insights, com...
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7) Phantasmal ((or, 'The Bulbous Peril')(a Short Story))
Author:
Dennis Siluk Ed.D.
Category:
Arts and Entertainment
'Dangerous illusions within a sphere,' they called it!It was 1997, Sulla had fragments coming into his mind, disjointed fragments, in dream and illusionary form, and so he conjectured, presupposed, he was losing his mind, he was living at the time in Roseville, Minnesota, on Larpenteur Street, in a two bedroom apartment, or at least that is what he would have told anyone had they asked him, because it is what he believed. He lived there with his mother. He had talked to a psychologist...
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8) The Black Zone Horror (In Four Parts)
Author:
Dennis Siluk Ed.D.
Category:
Arts and Entertainment
Part One(to 'The Black Zone Horror')The Seatmate(September, 2007) Juan Carlos Perez left Huancayo, Peru, high up in the Andes, in the Mantaro Valley, after spending several days at a booth (stall) which his aunt had set up at the San Jeronimo festival of the Avelinos. The twenty-two year old boy caught a bus, with some forty-passengers, heading down the Andes, a seven hour night ride to Lima. He put his head phones on, found a window seat in the front of the bus, and fel...
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9) "The Man on the Locks" (An Account at the Panama Canal)
Author:
Dennis Siluk Ed.D.
Category:
Arts and Entertainment
This story you are about to read has more truth to its twists, than you may want to believe, and let me add to that, the main character, George W.G., would have said: there was a time that every American could be proud of the construction of the Panama Canal, if for anything beyond that, since America has given that away, such pride must ferment in the knowledge and information, by which the original object and purpose was attained. This story, "The Man on the Locks," is rather simple and to...
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10) The Legend of the Diabolical Rajah of Jaipur (1799)
Author:
Dennis Siluk Ed.D.
Category:
Arts and Entertainment
[The Sorcerer and the Rajah; in the Hall of the Winds]The Crown of KrishnaIn the City Palace, is the chamber of the Harem, its original intention was to allow royal ladies to observe everyday life in the street below without being seen, also known as Hawa Mahal, or better known as "The Hall of the Winds." Our story takes place in Jaipur, India, in the year 1799, within these walls, they were constructed of red pink limestone, and is five stories tall, the palace has the most be...
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11) Uncle George ((A Short Sketch For Old Folks, 1987)(A Minnesota Story))
Author:
Dennis Siluk Ed.D.
Category:
Arts and Entertainment
(Winter of 1987) I thought we were headed toward the River Road, along the Mississippi, in St. Paul, Minnesota, I, my mother, Aunt Anne, Uncle George was heading to the airport (a tired old man now, about five foot eight inches tall, one hundred and fifty pounds, at one time a lively sort of person, a talkative kind of fellow (a little quiet now), a sporty man and hard working, kind of played the big shot, but it was an act more than reality), and it was winter of 1987.They picked us...
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12) Old Josh, In - "The Auction" ((1865) (Part One of Three))
Author:
Dennis Siluk Ed.D.
Category:
Arts and Entertainment
"There ain't a hoss I ever did see that I git a liken for cuz they aint worth it, youall got to feed them, and water them, and bed them, and they cant do a thing fer themselves," said Old Josh, adding, "they aint worth a dollar for anyone of them, that ther saddle over yonder over that there fence pole is worth more than the hosses. Yessum those hosses cause yaw nothin' but trouble. And ef'in I had my choice, I'd kill them all fer horse meat, and feed them to the hogs-Yessum they aint worth...
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13) Zam, In - White Gorillas ((1811-1813)(From the Old Josh Series))
Author:
Dennis Siluk Ed.D.
Category:
Arts and Entertainment
There was no worry, or confusing thoughts of the future, for Zam, and his mother, the black boy was eight years old, it was 1811, the future wasn't even on his mind, only the occasional recollections his mother told him to remember, his mother Zamia, to him to remember because of his environment, the tropical forest of the Congo was his home, a most alluring picture of beauty at natures best. The equatorial sun beat through the tense jungle, the leafy sea of green over his head, the canopy o...
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14) Old Josh and the Monk (1870)
Author:
Dennis Siluk Ed.D.
Category:
Arts and Entertainment
Josh Jefferson, was about twenty-seven years old when Silas, his oldest child was born, and old doc, Doctor Benjamin Lee Ssumsky (who came from Australia in the year 1795 to San Francisco, and then found himself a wife, by the name of Estelle, visiting San Francisco, who lived in Dothan, Alabama, married her, and having enough doctors in Dothan, and not enough in Ozark, they both found themselves down in Ozark because he married that gal from Alabama, and Ozark needed a doctor, and Dothan di...
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15) Across the Moon (Old Joshua)
Author:
Dennis Siluk Ed.D.
Category:
Arts and Entertainment
1869Charles Hightower died in the fall of 1869, eighty-years old, leaving Joshua Jefferson $3000-dollars, and four acres of land, starting from where his shanty was; Dylan Hightower, his son now 24-years old, the same age Charles was when he met Joshua, was in charge, his daughter Emma 19-years old, his wife, Aurea, being forty-eight years old, they would continue to live in the Plantation House, but the days of heavy planting, and big crops were over.Emily Hightower, Charles'...
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16) Last Day in Ozark, Alabama (Short Sketch)
Author:
Dennis Siluk Ed.D.
Category:
Arts and Entertainment
1889-1890A day in Ozark, it would be the last day Joshua Jefferson would ever spend sin Ozark, Alabama; it was in November 24, of 1889. He was all of 86-years old, and in the 76-years he lived near Ozark, he had only been in the city a half dozen times, and to him that was enough, but his previous times, the times before this time, which would be the last time, was some forty-years ago, take or give five this or that way.Today, November 24, was his birthday, and he came down to...
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17) The Peculiar Case of Judson Small (A Short Story, WWI)
Author:
Dennis Siluk Ed.D.
Category:
Arts and Entertainment
(WWI, 1919, Part II of II)One morning, Lilly Ann Small, moved her chair up to the living room window for a long peaceful morning, gloating , not at the empty yard, since her husband had died in WWI, a year or so ago, it was now 1919, but on her new suitor, James Jason, who worked at the Huntsville, courthouse, he was an old boyfriend, one that didn't make the grade she had felt, one that was now contriving to ease her grieving pain by asking her to marry him. She watched the chickens...
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18) Full of Beans at Wallace Creek ((Adolescence) (1965, Chapter Fifteen, Summer of 1965))
Author:
Dennis Siluk Ed.D.
Category:
Arts and Entertainment
Full of Beans at Wallace Creek
((Adolescence) (1965))Advance: In the spring of 1965, Wallace Creek was full of mud and cold cool fresh water, from the meltdown of a cold winter, when summer came the creek was flowing almost like the river it connected to, it was high; the sun likened to a fire from a winter's, plantation's hearth, which made for a great summer getaway down by the creek. Bees were buzzing, birds chirping, and dogs barking, and there was a warm wind that whirled its...
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19) Howard Stern - Yes, Him Again!
Author:
Dennis Siluk Ed.D.
Category:
Arts and Entertainment
Every so often I get an email, on Howard Stern, why I don't care for his kind of entertainment. I get actually both kinds of emails, negative and positive. Negative saying, I should like him, and how great he is, and I should not write about him negatively, which I have not for years, and positive folks saying: your right he is a bad news, bad entertainment, a bad example for our society, especially our kids.Years ago when I was writing for a website, I wrote several articles on him,...
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20) In a Dead Voice ((Vietnam, 1971)('Voices Out of Saigon'))
Author:
Dennis Siluk Ed.D.
Category:
Arts and Entertainment
((Story Fifteen) (March, 1971)
(Story told by Morgan, March 1986))Advance: Even to Sergeant Morgan Carter, he knew there were two sides to every man, even to him. One he could lay his life down for a county that did not appreciate his duty assignments, in a War that was not popular, as in his, that being, Vietnam, where he served five tours, or five years, even got two Bronze Stars for Valor, almost a Medal of Honor, for saving a man's life, in the middle of rocket fire, whereas...
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