Author: John Battle
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Be Gluten Free for three Days: This is How
~~Don’t think about anything else: Think about gluten. Buy everything labeled gluten-free. I will tell you how it would work for me, given the food stores that exist around me. The frozen case has multi-grain, gluten-free bread. It’s very nice. Toast it; make sandwiches. There is gluten-free frozen pizza in the frozen case, in a…
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I learned to Write Like Herb Caen
You might think that I learned from a very good teacher in one of the schools I attended. I learned some things in school; however, I learned writing from Herb Caen. He wrote a society column for the San Francisco Chronicle for sixty years. He died in the late 1990s. If I were on a…
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The Mechanics of Writing: Getting Good at It
Here is an example. Place the the word only near the noun. Write: I have only twenty dollars. Don’t write: I only have twenty dollars. If you are having a casual conversation, say whatever comes to mind. It makes little difference. Here is another example: different. The weather at the oceanfront is different from the…
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Licentious People: Complete Text of My Long Short Story
I offer you here an example of my fiction. It is a short story from my book of collected fiction, Overone. It is available at Amazon Books by the title Overone, author John Battle. The arc of time cut cruelly for Sister Jean Patrice. She loved poetry and teaching and writing, but now she loved…
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First Man (Movie Review)
The movie I watched over a span of three days It is an hour and twenty-one minutes. I watched a couple of action movies in between sessions over several days. It is an existential masterpiece. Ennui is the art of life. How did they do that, the story writer, the director, the performers? Maybe they…
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Forward to My fiction Collection Titled Overone
My Amazon book Overone contains my collected fiction. One: Literature has only one theme: Death. Two: Teach in such a way that no one can object. Three: A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown. Even if you did not pay attention in class because you were a distracted artist, you learned the…
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The Mind of the Psychopath: Who Can You Trust with the Nuclear Trigger?
Someday, at 3:28, on a Sunday morning, a staff member will wake the President of the United States and tell that President to decide the fate of the world in a matter of seconds.
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