The Trip

 First of all . . . many thanks for the offers to review my stories. My latest, The Trip, will be in the offing.

This Regards the Audiobook Version of The Bee Killer

It all started because he didn't drink the Kool-aid, he slammed it. Serving his country hadda be better than serving customers at Fred's Eat Shop. Medals and swords and uniforms would provide the ladies he desired. They'd fawn all over him and he'd get to see the world. Then the horrible specter of violence slammed his moral compass and altered his life's trajectory.

This story was written after one chance encounter, with a young man, who had returned home with a ton of questions. Nikki Delgado of London England, was cited for her expert rendition of this man's story. The author, Curt Rude, was awarded in San Francisco for his efforts on behave of those who have damaged souls. Robert Wangsness of Design by Word is thanked for his heartfelt efforts.

Here's One for Your Pryin' Eye's

“Unfriendly, Curt, Rude. We were made to feel like a nuisance.” 

Oh The Times They Are . . .

a changing. Remember when politics was old school and boring? Apathy was the norm. Now ya have an Olympic Medalist, Cops and possibly soldiers allegedly storming the Capital. Our elected officials are referring to them as insurrectionists and terrorists. I suppose they were plenty scared when they had to duck into secret hiding places. They must have felt like the Red Coats when George and his motley crew got to acting up. No worries . . . the lawyers smell blood and this entire episode will be litigated until none of the accused have a pot to . . . well you know the rest of the story. Good Day!  

Long and Short of The Matter

No issue is sacred nor written with any undue regard for the politically correct. All the good, the bad and ugliness of humanity is encountered. The 'Onion of Reality' is peeled back, layer by layer, until the why's are fully exposed. Every story is only written after being thoroughly researched. All points of view are considered and some are actually incorporated into Rude's stories. Those who would prefer soft light hearted reads, are encouraged to avoid his stories. 

How say Curt?

I love humanity for all it has been in my life. I live with too many books to ever read, have won numerous awards, am published by F.M. McCulloch and am represented by the Barone Literary Agency. Oh and did I say I'm working on two more efforts?

Listening

can open up the world to things like empathy and understanding. It's this fact that has resulted in my stories being written. Many of us have been confronted with the horror of our heros coming back from places that involve killing. What happens when the 'he was always such a nice boy' boy does something no nice boy would do? Right? I have did my homework long before I detailed the incident in The Bee Killer.

Here Today Gone Tomorrow

I listen before I put together one of my stories. After serving his country, one of our heros strolls into a bowling alley and opens fire. Why? What happened here? Read . . . The Bee Killer.

'The Bee Killer' and Duke Webb

 CHICAGO (AP) — An attorney for a U.S. Army special forces sergeant arrested in what authorities called an apparently random shooting at an Illinois bowling alley that left three people dead told an initial hearing Monday that her client may suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder.

Duke Webb, 37, faces three counts of murder and three counts of first-degree attempted murder for injuring three others in the shooting at Don Carter Lanes, in Rockford, on Saturday evening.

Scary Indeed

Gratified to know readers are enjoying The Bee Killer in Australia. You know it's the real monsters that are the real threat.

Third Installment

Okay . . . so Mrs. Peters finally gives me her final piece of advice. I got the feeling she considered all three as equally important. Here goes. The Worst advice my mother ever gave me was: Honesty is the best policy. It implied that other people are honest, which I've discovered, they're not.

Next this wonderful lady says this.

Never be loyal to any employer beyond doing the best work possible during the time you're employed, because they won't be loyal to you. It's the hardest lesson for young people to learn. Enough said? No, she had another hard hitting lesson, but please, ponder this one today.

Been On This Planet a Longtime

So here goes. Mrs. Peters waltzed around planet earth for a longtime. I asked what she learned while experiencing Mother Earth for ninety plus years. The first thing she shared with me was that if she could do it all over again she'd do it more carefully. Then she told me to standstill. She was in the process of hemming a suit for me.

Sobering

To close for comfort. Lady dies in Madison from the virus. Her sister is weeping bitterly yesterday. Then I encounter an opinion that runs something like this. 'Everyone is going to get it so lets just get it and get over it.' We are entering The Twilight Zone where different opinions clash and there're are no winners. 

Jesus and Justice

So Jesus said something like . . . 'judge not or be judged'. Yet we have many who are judges. So, judging by this statement, judges are heading to a place judged very hot by scoundrels. Right? 

It Ain't Over

 until the lawsuits are settled. Chief Justice John Marshal is giggling somewhere.

The Choice

 seems to be a man, who happens to not be an attorney, and a man who is once again an attorney.

Two Party System

 

being funded by the same PAC's and you thought there was a choice here. If it looks like a duck and quakes it's a . . . well, you get the picture.

Hey Wait a Tick

 do you mean humanity is working together for a cure? Vaccines Not Bombs!

Weirdo Ones

 When the going gets Weird . . . the Weird run for Office.