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Murder in Linn County, Oregon: The True Story of the Legendary Plainview Killings

Murder in Linn County, Oregon: The True Story of the Legendary Plainview Killings

Linn County, Oregon, lost its first sheriff in 1922. A year later, it lost its second.

2016

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Tales of A Group Called Smith

EDITOR’S NOTE: About a year ago, I posted a Smith-related Best Classic Bands link to my Facebook page, little suspecting, when an old…

44 min readJan 5, 2022

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Ghosts of Ghosts of Ghosts of Ghosts (Basinski from the Rear-View Ahead)

Excerpt from Thus, Across a Sea of Loss (Meditations in a Gen X Winter):

6 min readApr 19, 2023

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Ghosts of Ghosts of Ghosts of Ghosts (Basinski from the Rear-View Ahead)

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Baby, Baby, Baby, You’re Out of Time (March 2020)

Another book excerpt:

13 min readMar 12, 2023

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Baby, Baby, Baby, You’re Out of Time (March 2020)

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Thus, Across a Sea of Loss

A new book draft in progress.

7 min readFeb 13, 2023

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Thus, Across a Sea of Loss

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My Favorite Memory of the ’80s

I’m not sure of the exact date, but this short story appears in a spiral Pen-Tab notebook labeled “April 2001.”

9 min readFeb 3, 2023

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My Favorite Memory of the ’80s

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A Thin Lie Between Love and Hate: The Interrupted Legend of Beige Mancini

EDITOR’S NOTE: Near the frazzled culmination of my journo career, I met a rabid freak of a bon vivant named Neil Zawicki. This…

9 min readDec 13, 2022

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A Thin Lie Between Love and Hate: The Interrupted Legend of Beige Mancini

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Behind the Scenes of a Punk Rock Fantasy I Never Finished

Here I invented a punk band from scratch, using the Minutemen, Germs, and Violent Femmes as templates/inspiration, for a supernatural…

14 min readNov 30, 2022

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Behind the Scenes of a Punk Rock Fantasy I Never Finished

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From Gen X to AARP (Alphabet Going Backward Ever-Forward)

“And there will come a day And youth will pass away What will they say about me?”

5 min readNov 23, 2022

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From Gen X to AARP (Alphabet Going Backward Ever-Forward)

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49 Braces for 50, Gazes at 20 with Longing Regret

How’s this for new math: I’ve been a published writer now at least a decade longer than I haven’t. Whole chunks predate the multi-fanged…

5 min readNov 4, 2022

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49 Braces for 50, Gazes at 20 with Longing Regret

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You’ve Got Mail and Mail’s Got You

It dawned on me recently that my primary email address is 26 (!) — three years older than its creator at conception, that long-ago evening…

4 min readOct 27, 2022

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You’ve Got Mail and Mail’s Got You

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Cory Frye

Cory Frye

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Cory Frye is a journalist with 30 years of experience wrestling pulp in various forms. Email: fryeness@hotmail.com. Tips: https://ko-fi.com/coryfrye41477.

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