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Jay’s Magnum Opus

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Lilith, Eve, and Adam Copyright 2021 Bookflurry Inc. I began my journey in writing many years ago… Perhaps, my passion existed before I was even aware. As some zygote in my mother’s womb when my handsome, hard-working, self-motivating, and athletic father coupled in desire with my creative, beautiful, and artistic mother in the early eighties. They do say that it takes two to tango. But, throughout my more than ambiguous studies of philosophy, biology, and religion I have teased out a theory that is rather triune in nature. I mean, who can blame their parents for giving birth to them? Have you ever thanked them? Ever cursed them ? Both? Or, are you perhaps as humble as I and presume that you may have, in fact, chosen to take part in this grand game of conscious evolution yourself ? It really is an art, raising children. Trying to gently explain to them that life is an exercise in personal, and then global accountability. It’s a death sentence is what it is! Well, gently I wil...

Boiler Room

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Copyright 2014 Illustrations designed by Jay Horne Margaret gets her first job assignment in high school. The only problem is that everyone knows to stay away from the dilapidated warehouse on 9th and Melon. Is she too old to let childish stories scare her off from cleaning the old windows? Classic Bedtime Horror.

A Review of The Talisman by: Stephen King and Peter Straub

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The Talisman by Stephen King My rating: 2 of 5 stars I have read so many of King's works, I was having trouble finding one, when I came across this title. I didn't check the copyright date before reading and starting really struggling to get through the thing. Of course, I had just finished reading 'On writing', and I suppose it kinda threw me when I was seeing all of King's suggestions being broken one by one. After you check the publication date you will see it is one of his very early books. Before he started killing his darlings. The story is good, but it is so descriptive that you just skip a lot of it. I found myself jumping to the next bit of dialogue just to use my imagination a little. I can't complain. The combination of his book ' On writing ' (A FIVE STAR READ- every writer should read it- IMO) and then reading this early work of his, have showed me what I am doing to my readers when I don't murder my darlings a little, too. Lord knows...