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I'm plowing through edits and revisions for the next novel, Someone Else's Book Club. The chapter I'm currently working on is when the...
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Jeff South
- Nov 4, 2023
- 2 min
Someone Else's Book Club: Excerpt
This is an excerpt from my next novel, Someone Else's Book Club. The book is in its final revisions. More to come. ****** Preface to The...
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Jeff South
- Oct 31, 2023
- 1 min
Blogtober 2023, Day 31: Conspiracy
We exited together… Leaving the place to its own darkness and neither of us dared look back… Stephen King, Jerusalem’s Lot “I beg your...
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Jeff South
- Oct 31, 2023
- 1 min
Blogtober 2023, Day 30: Protocol
“My child,” he remarked, “though our episode ends, In the manner of men, I suggest we be friends.” Dorothy Parker, Fable A wretched...
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Jeff South
- Oct 29, 2023
- 1 min
Blogtober 2023, Day 29: Profanity
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and Despair! Nothing beside remains. Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ozymandias Spencer obliged the man’s direction...
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Jeff South
- Oct 28, 2023
- 1 min
Blogtober 2023, Day 28: Fearless
I ramble down the empty roads. All the restaurants and shops are closed… Places that witnessed so many loves Throughout the years now...
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Jeff South
- Oct 28, 2023
- 1 min
Blogtober 2023, Day 27: Underground
Let us leave the hateful town With its stale, forgotten lies Clark Ashton Smith, Adventure Spencer’s screams could be heard the instant...
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Jeff South
- Oct 27, 2023
- 1 min
Blogtober 2023, Day 26: Blinded
Unseemly are the open eyes That watch the midnight sheep, That look upon the secret skies Nor close, abashed in sleep; Dorothy Parker,...
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Jeff South
- Oct 26, 2023
- 1 min
Blogtober 2023, Day 25: Kamikaze
Oh, God! can I not save One from the pitiless wave? Is all that see or seem But a dream within a dream? Edgar Allan Poe, A Dream Within A...
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Jeff South
- Oct 25, 2023
- 1 min
Blogtober 2023, Day 24: Deception
When you uncover the veil, you’ll smell the pretense, and when you think you’ve known it all, then you’ll know you’ve known nothing at...
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Jeff South
- Oct 24, 2023
- 1 min
Blogtober 2023, Day 23: Breathless
They say I looked back out of curiosity But I could have had other reasons Wislawa Szymborska, Lot’s Wife The creature stood in front of...
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Jeff South
- Oct 23, 2023
- 1 min
Blogtober 2023, Day 22: Nightmare
But now it seems some unseen monster lays His vast and filthy hands upon my will Alfred Lord Tennyson, Lucretius The trio reached the...
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Jeff South
- Oct 21, 2023
- 1 min
Blogtober 2023, Day 21: Gathering
Yet knowing how way leads on to way I doubted if I should ever come back Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken The reluctant monster hunters...
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Jeff South
- Oct 21, 2023
- 1 min
Blogtober 2023, Day 20: Feral
You might think there are aliens, Those green and red slimy things. Meriam Joseph, It’s Just In Your Mind The high school stood stall and...
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Jeff South
- Oct 19, 2023
- 1 min
Blogtober 2023, Day 19: Distrust
The town, betrayed by time passed, lies forsaken. Lost, lain memories, like tumbleweeds, awaken John Anderson, Abandoned The spray of...
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Jeff South
- Oct 18, 2023
- 1 min
Blogtober 2023, Day 18: Collision
You knew I was coming for you little one, when the kettle jumped into the fire. Louise Erdrich, Windigo “Is there a problem, my boy?” the...
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Jeff South
- Oct 18, 2023
- 1 min
Blogtober 2023, Day 17: Rendezvous
It’s like so many other things in life to which you must say no or yes. So you take your car to the new mechanic. Sometimes the best...
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Jeff South
- Oct 17, 2023
- 1 min
Blogtober 2023, Day 16: Sign
I dreaded walking where there was no path And pressed with cautious tread the meadow swath And always turned to look with wary eye John...
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Jeff South
- Oct 15, 2023
- 1 min
Blogtober 2023, Day 15: Ablaze
Because I could not stop for Death– He kindly stopped for me Emily Dickinson, Because I Could Not Stop For Death Luke was gone. To where,...
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Jeff South
- Oct 14, 2023
- 1 min
Blogtober 2023, Day 14: Despondent
In another dream, I was a field and you combed through me searching for something you only thought you had lost. Cecilia Llompart, Omens...
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