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Pete Lit: Fiction Archives

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Literary pretendings, off-the-cuff insights and the occasional rant. Lord of the Ratios". I just rediscovered this pseudo-story - my somewhat inspired effort to reimagine my dull banker workday as an epic quest. I wrote it as a series of Facebook status updates, back in January 2011. Lord of the Ratios. And the other thanes - Cristeff, Gawain, Jolgor - humbly make their request: land for the forge, gold for the warehouseman and continued favor for the livery. Leaves the chamber, the council having merely...

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Pete Lit: "The Ghoul's Evening Visit"

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Literary pretendings, off-the-cuff insights and the occasional rant. Laquo; Stories: McGahern, Monson, McCann. Thrift Store Booking ». The Ghoul's Evening Visit". The Ghoul’s Evening Visit. Sad, but it didn’t happen to me, Agnes would usually say as she turned back to her clothes-washing or bill-paying. But even when such a thing did happen to Vera and Agnes, they thought little of it. Last night’s events, or non-events if Vera and Agnes were asked, were merely more of the same. Last night it was. Was on...

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Pete Lit: "One Last Smoke"

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Literary pretendings, off-the-cuff insights and the occasional rant. Laquo; Fading Ad: Oil Coal Gas Furnaces. Fading Ad: Clinton Supply Company ». As Richie reaches the car, his cigarette has burned nearly all the way down. He sits behind the wheel, alone with his thoughts, remembering, and flicks the dead stub through the window. The words his own, the others' encouragement and the group leader's guidance, Bill's chatter while they smoked always reassured him, but also faded whenever Richie found himsel...

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Pete Lit: "The Lovely Miss Underwood"

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Literary pretendings, off-the-cuff insights and the occasional rant. Writing in Progress ». The Lovely Miss Underwood". The always invigorating Coudal Partners. Recently ran a contest called "Missed Connections" which they described as follows:. You: A reader of these mailings, sitting at your desk or in your cubicle or perhaps with your laptop in a bookstore or coffee shop. Me: A writer of these mailings, doing same. What: Write a "missed connections" entry about you and an inanimate object. Daddy Cool:...

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Pete Lit: "Insomnis"

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Literary pretendings, off-the-cuff insights and the occasional rant. Laquo; New Adam Rapp Story. Song of the Week: Bob Mould ». Another minute passed, merely one of identical hundreds that night, the night itself identical to hundreds of others. He remembered the bottle which sat, still sealed, on the shelf of the medicine chest, but shook off the idea. He still thought, hoped, he could do it himself, go it alone. Note: I wrote this story specifically for the "Late Night Tales". I finished writing it tod...

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Pete Lit: Fading Ad: Clinton Supply Company

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Literary pretendings, off-the-cuff insights and the occasional rant. Laquo; "One Last Smoke". I will need at least 450 pages of sailing before I find him." ». Fading Ad: Clinton Supply Company. Clinton was founded in 1910 (originally located on Clinton Street and later here on Jackson Blvd.) and is now part of Benjamin Power Group. Based in Northbrook. The Dual-O-Matic was apparently some sort of power supply unit for electroplating and anodizing applications. July 31, 2015 in Photography. Mencken covers...

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Pete Lit: "I will need at least 450 pages of sailing before I find him."

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Literary pretendings, off-the-cuff insights and the occasional rant. Laquo; Fading Ad: Clinton Supply Company. Natur is good Queen Bess; but who's responsible for the cholera? I will need at least 450 pages of sailing before I find him.". The late E.L. Doctorow, on. So let me propose that having done his first hundred or so pages of almost entirely land-based writing, Melville stopped to read what he had written. What have I got here? This Ishmael he is logorrheic! Whatever he writes about,. Email Me: pe...

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Pete Lit: "...to be a consistent Indian-hater involves the renunciation of ambition..."

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Literary pretendings, off-the-cuff insights and the occasional rant. Laquo; Murakami fans, thank your lucky stars for Dave Hilton. Let us go then, you and I." ». To be a consistent Indian-hater involves the renunciation of ambition.". Includes the tale of the fictional Colonel Moredock, an Illinois pioneer who - there's no nice way to say this - killed Native Americans for sport. August 10, 2015 in Books. Kurt Vonnegut: Breakfast of Champions. Giant Sand: "Death, Dying and Channel 5". The Last Final Copy".

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Pete Lit: Murakami fans, thank your lucky stars for Dave Hilton.

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Literary pretendings, off-the-cuff insights and the occasional rant. To be a consistent Indian-hater involves the renunciation of ambition." ». Murakami fans, thank your lucky stars for Dave Hilton. Haruki Murakami remembers his a-ha moment. At a Yakult Swallows game in 1978. The satisfying crack when the bat met the ball resounded throughout Jingu Stadium. Scattered applause rose around me. In that instant, for no reason and on no grounds whatsoever, the thought suddenly struck me:. The Last Final Copy".