Author: Spoke

Confucius say Beware the man who takes twice as many words to say the same thing as the other guy. The other day, a half hour was spent congratulating the LSU tigers baseball team. There was a motion spent speaking about how great the team […]

  One Spooky Ride By James W. Yanosko             Once there was a man named Vlad who went to work as a bicycle guide. He was from Kansas and he was young and strong. He dreamed of guiding people in exotic locations and when he jumped […]

Teeth in the wrong places (Ponca-Otoe) When Coyote was roaming around for adventures, looking for great deeds to do, someone told him of an evil sorceress, an old woman who lived with her two wicked daughters. Many young men went there to sleep with the […]

Karma ·       It opens with a frog sitting calmly on a lily pad ·       All of the sudden a dragonfly buzzes by and the frog leaps and misses ·       The camera stays on the dragonfly ·       The dragonfly comes to rest on a reed and […]

Originally posted 5/3/13 Well Its been exactly a week since I finished the above referenced book for Arcadia Publishing. I overnighted the package on Thursday afternoon but I didnt actually finish the Acknowledgement and Introduction sections until just about this time last Tuesday. It was […]

Murder for money By Jim Yanosko I tried several times being rude to her in hopes she would just leave. If she left then there was no way Richard would kill her. His plans would be spoiled and this whole mess would just evaporate. She […]

I feel like I’m running a marathon. I’m writing a novel. This historical fiction is set in Allegheny City/Pittsburgh in 1897. Major Taylor was coming to town for a race. Corrupt cops, gamblers, politicians, Germans, Irish, Blacks, society types, low class ruffians all against the […]

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