Category Archives: New England

-40 – Wildcat – 1971

March 5, 2023 – 1:01 pm
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The Cost of Morality

February 11, 2023 – 4:04 am

In 1977 a Beacon Hill lawyer hired me to vanish his gas-guzzling Oldsmobile. $300 to never seen the Detroit pig again. It was grand-theft auto, but the risk was minimal. He’d report the car stolen the next day and collect on the insurance within a month. I had disappeared three of his friend’s lemons during […]

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THE LITTLEST BEAR

February 4, 2023 – 9:11 am

Vernon fished the Casco Bay from Peakes Island. The other day-fishers know his boat. A 1985 Seaway 22-footer ran the Drunken Ledge, the Cod Ledges, Big Ridge, and the Tanta’s ‘punkin bottom’ for pollock and cod in the winter. All in sight of the Ram’s Head Light station. Vernon was 56. Fishing was all he […]

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IN DA GADDA VIDA ON SNOW

January 23, 2023 – 8:32 am

In winter of 1969 I went skiing in North Conway with a bunch of townies from the CYO. We hit Wildcat hard. The coolest girl and I listened to IN DA GADDA VIDA in my bedroom. Her name was Susan. She smoked weed. I was straight. At the end of the song she said, “I […]

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Dunwich Horror – Wilbraham – Free Poetry – October 2022

December 6, 2022 – 2:37 pm

THE DUNWICH HORROR was published in 1929 by Weird Tales. Three years earlier HP Lovecraft had stayed in Wilbraham east of Springfield, Mass. The lost farmhouses scattered on the low mountains exuded a foreboding gloom inspired this tale, especially the 18th Century Whateley Farmhouse on Beebe Road. THE DUNWICH HORROR recounts the fictional life of […]

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