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The town that I live in used to have an Independence Day Parade. We still have a concert and fireworks, but the parade has gone the way of the dinosaur, candy cigarettes and inexpensive gasoline. One year, the volunteer firemen decided the parade had...
I didn’t realize just how hard it was going to be to pick a winner.
Some of you wrote blog posts about the weirdness in your home town. Some of you revealed the oddities in the form of a comment on my blog. And some of you whined that there’s...
Thanks to your various comments and posts, my head is jam-packed with weird facts about home towns and home states all across America and beyond. For example, I now know that
Corbin, Kentucky is the home of the first KFC. (And the Colonel's second...
It began as an exercise in finding the dead body, just a few sentences posted here some time back, commemorating a visit to Baltimore. Now it's a short story. Learn what happens when Gilligan Finds a Body, now available in the summer issue of...
It began as an exercise in finding the dead body, just a few sentences posted here some time back, commemorating a visit to Baltimore. Now it's a short story. Learn what happens when Gilligan Finds a Body, now available in the summer issue of...
Jeff Markowitz is laugh-out-loud funny, discussing the craft and the business of writing. He offers encouragement and wonderful tips for the aspiring writer, with a special nod to the mystery genre.