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A partial table of contents for while I’m away. — Novels, novellas, and serials Bread Ties A wealthy young couple is haunted by the strangest of horrors. Completed Bots A story about the takeover of the world by Artificial Intelligence. Conspiracy Theory …Ongoing Damn this Rain The story of a young man born on the side of an empty highway. Completed Daze of my…

Billy Jones

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Billy Jones

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Published in Rusty Can, Children’s Poems by Billy Jones

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What is it?

What’s read and white, and in plain sight except when it’s not there, tossed around, but not put down, and doesn’t have a care?

Childrens Literature

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What is it?
What is it?
Childrens Literature

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1 day ago

Kelly-Springfield

Another true story from The Daze of my Youth. It was sometime in the mid to late 1970s, I was working for a manufacturer here in Greensboro, North Carolina that made parts and supplies for the textile and tire industries. I’ll not mention the name. I often spent boring days…

Short Story

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Kelly-Springfield
Kelly-Springfield
Short Story

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Published in Rusty Can, Children’s Poems by Billy Jones

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Little Fish

A little fish stared at the sea, said, “It’s so big I fear for me. The waves, they crash, impending doom will come to me so very soon.”

Fish

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Little Fish
Little Fish
Fish

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3 days ago

Grab the Baby and Run!

Return to the daze of my youth. My boss called me to come answer the phone so I wiped off some of the grease from doing oil changes and grease jobs on heavy trucks and walked to the phone. “It’s your wife,” he said. “Of course it is,” I replied…

Baby

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Grab the Baby and Run!
Grab the Baby and Run!
Baby

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5 days ago

Bread and Circuses

Bread and circuses, they abound, though not enough to go around. Attention spans, they are no more as each new thread spins tales of yore. The war is everywhere you see, and poor folks die…

Poetry

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Poetry

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Mar 13

Story #983, Will Medium Survive The Crash?

On Friday it was announced that Silicon Valley Bank, the 16th largest in the nation, was ordered closed by Federal regulators, and will be auctioned off by the time most of you read this. California winerys, Etsy, and even employee paychecks all over the nation were negatively effected. Seems SVB was a victim of suffering tech companies who started a run on the bank, and when 2,500 of the world’s largest venture capitalists get nervous you can bet it is bad.

Svb

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Svb

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Feb 6

Medium is Punishing Its Best Writers

I’ve been putting this off for a while now as this isn’t the sort of topic I most enjoy, but I’ve come to the conclusion it needs to be widely known throughout all of the Mediumspere and beyond. — Medium’s recent decision to accept stories written using AI (artificial intelligence) will without a doubt punish its best writers. How so? As more and more content (AI or human) is published to the platform the likelihood that any one story will be well read (Or read at all.) diminishes. Each…

Billy Jones

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Medium is Punishing Its Best Writers
Medium is Punishing Its Best Writers
Billy Jones

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Jan 10

Two Eagles Talking — New Years

Two young eagles attempt to understand a new year. — Continued from Two Eagles Talking. “What’s out there?” “I don’t know but Mom says it’s bad.” “Mom says everything’s bad.” “Why do you reckon that is?” “Dad says it’s because of people.” “What are people?” “I don’t know but Mom and Dad sure don’t like them.” “I don’t like people…

Two Eagles Talking

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Two Eagles Talking — New Years
Two Eagles Talking — New Years
Two Eagles Talking

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Jan 1

Old Jokes

My retelling of some old jokes you may or may not remember… — The following jokes have been told for as long as I’ve lived, perhaps longer, and are not mine. This is my retelling. Four! Police were called to the local golf course where a woman had died from a golf ball to the back of her head. The coroner was called. …

Comedy

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Old Jokes
Old Jokes
Comedy

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Billy Jones

Billy Jones

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I'm just a retired long-haul trucker who exchanged his rig for pen, paper, and keyboard. Read more at http://Wackemall.com

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