Something New at The Speakeasy

I've given my Speakeasy blog a face lift and and added a new review of
"Darkly Dreaming Dexter" by Jeff Lindsay.

The link is below. Take a look!

Susan

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Their Bones Still Bleach

In 1920 jazz musicians, writers and artists, flocked to Paris and came to be known as the Lost Generation. Lady Margaret, Countess of Chesterleigh went to Paris to paint and to heal from the Great War and to grieve the loss of Henry, the love of her life. One morning Hercule, a friend who lives downstairs from her studio, is found dead, slumped over his typewriter. At first it looks like another writer has committed suicide but the police say it's murder and Lady Margaret has the best motive. I wrote this story as a view into Lady Margaret's past. What was she like before she was the famous artist of the novel Murder on the Waterfront?

http://tinyurl.com/lfgj7

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Merlin's Gate: The Weapon

Available now on Amazon Shorts:

http://tinyurl.com/fbmec

Merlin's Gate is a dark world where owning book, weapons or products of modern technology will get you a one-way ticket to The Pit - and all tickets to The Pit are one way. Brax is a street rat who has always struggled to survive. His friend Cabe is the son of a Domun, a powerful clergyman. Brax finds a beautiful, silvery cylinder, some kind of mastech - massproduced technology. He knows (hopes) it is a powerful weapon. Brax's desire to own such a deadly thing lands Cabe in the Pit where he will face certain death. This is a science fiction fantasy piece about survival, courage and redemption.

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How Can We Love the World?

My inspirational piece "How Can We Love the World" has been published at moondance.org

http://www.moondance.org/2004/fire04/bot/world.html

Enjoy!

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Am I My Brother's Keeper?

And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.
9. And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?

I, like a lot of ...read more

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The Culture War

Someone asked me recently why I thought there was no such thing as a
"Culture War."

I think "Culture War" is just a political slogan. It is used by the Right
wing fundamentalists who want to fool people into believing that they
constitute at least half the ...read more

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What is Marriage?

This morning on NPR, I was listening to the report about the Massachusets Supreme Court's decision on gay marriage. I was lying next to my husband and thinking how lucky I am that the person I love is a man. That means I'm not subject to the cruelty of people who want to deny to others the legal privileges they enjoy themselves. That means when I die my husband won't lose our house. That means if he loses his health insurance I can add him to mine and if he gets really sick it won't ruin us financially. It means that if he ever gets really sick I won't have to prowl around the hospital hoping to be able to sneak in and see him when nobody is looking.

The religious right believes that marriage is a union of a penis and a vagina. I think that is utterly degrading. A marriage is a bond of love and commitment irrespective of the anatomical possessions of the people undertaking the union. To restrict marriage to heterosexuals is to create a privileged class which in turn destroys our equality as American citizens.

Susan Cogan

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