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GenTales

Wigwams, Woodpiles, and Warrior Women

Online ancestors

6 min readApr 19, 2024

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Wigwams, Woodpiles, and Warrior Women

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The Shortform

Anchovy Fingers

When briny beats luscious

1 min readApr 16, 2024

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Anchovy Fingers

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From The Horse’s Mouth

BEACHED

While Strolling On The Shore — Nevermore?

9 min readApr 14, 2024

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BEACHED

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Travel Memoirs

Saved By Cigarettes in Mombasa

Tobacco proved helpful to my health

6 min readApr 14, 2024

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cigarettes, paper money, and a coin from Kenya

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Entropies

Mixed Murder

He Did Drinks Too

8 min readApr 14, 2024

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Mixed Murder

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Deep. Sweet. Valuable.

The Big Guy’s Grave

Powers of the past in the Pacific NW

5 min read3 hours ago

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A modest marble cross engraved SEALTH marks the final resting place of Chief Seattle. The cross is butressed by two large cedar columns carved in tribal motifs and painted red and black. The grave site is enclosed by a low cement wall engraved in English and the native dialect with excerpts from a speach attributed to Chief Serattle.

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Long. Sweet. Valuable.

Forgetting How Not to Die

Temporally Speaking, is anything finite?

10 min read4 days ago

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A scantily-clad time traveler from the future stands in an ethereal setting. She wears a vaguely Aztec cum Imperial Chinese golden crown of sorts, a skimpy golden harness barely concealing her breasts, and golden sandals that wind up to her knees.

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Entropies

Kicking Against the Prick

The abled, disabled, and public transportation

5 min readMay 12, 2024

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An artsy-crafty photo — almost in black and white, but with sepia highlights, of a dreary, soggy, foggy, Seattle day — antique lamp posts in the foreground, then viaduct overpass, with misty high-rise apartments in the background.

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Mike Howard
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The Fiction Series

BLOOD MONEY

Saint Dorothy’s pound of flesh

10 min readMay 12, 2024

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A closeup shot of a mass of tangled matted black hair with two wild but indistinct eyes glaring out.

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Mike Howard
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Wrong Ingredients

Kava Klatch at Kulima Cove

Alien vs Predator

4 min readMay 11, 2024

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A photo of picturesque palm trees silhouetted against dark clouds and illuminated in the center by a golden sunset.

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Mike Howard

Mike Howard

Michael Howard has traveled extensively in Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Caribbean, & the South Seas – winning hearts and minds in and out of uniform.

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