When I watch footage of NBA players from before my time, I find that it becomes kinda clinical. I already know the results, and how the players’ careers turned out, and the following players who were influenced by them, and so. The elements of surprise and of context are missing. The times and society and…
Scene (x) scene: Please Forward My Mail, chapter 3
Anthony “Fergie” Ferguson is a loner, a porn addict, a video game aficiondado, and a stalker. In other words, Fergie is pretty much an average all-American young man. Writer Chris DeBrie’s “Please Forward My Mail” is a novel in serial form, written scene by scene. Click here 3. Someone who’s really in love doesn’t…
Kevin Durant: From Annoyed to Maddened in the NBA
A few years ago, OKC Kevin Durant was the least-critiqued, or most coddled if you will, supertalent in the league. Remember local media there actually apologized for a story about him? He was the kinda-nice guy? Things really flipped. Fans and media eat him alive now. And he walks around ice grilling, cursing, and secretly…
Defensive elbow tap: NBA tactics
The defensive elbow tap to disrupt a jump shot… classic “They do that in today’s game…Â Foul,” said one NBA fan. and, should it be? Is that a foul? or just slick gamesmanship? adjust for era? Comparing past and present NBA players Maybe in today’s game, the shooter would have flung himself into the courtside seats….
The Portrait by Whitney J. LeBlanc
Historical Fiction, Short Stories Published: January 2018 The Portrait is a story about three people from different cultures struggling to live through the social evolution of the 1960s. The lives of a Latino trapeze artiste, a Black man survivor-of-the-streets, and the White daughter of a wealthy Bible publisher, were thrown together during the…
Alexandr, vampire hunter: Page 65
PAGE 64 PAGE 66 Click here While surviving years of abuse, poverty, crime, and prison, Alexandr Vikayanov was transforming into a lethal weapon. Chapter 1: “First Blood” Sick of all the vampire love? SO IS HE. www.meanpimento.com/alexandr Chapter 2: “Feed Your Faith, Starve Your Fear” Chapter 3: “Quid Pro Quo“
Scene (x) Scene: Please Forward My Mail, chapter 2
Anthony “Fergie” Ferguson is a loner, a porn addict, a video game aficiondado, and a stalker. In other words, Fergie is pretty much an average all-American young man. Writer Chris DeBrie’s “Please Forward My Mail” is a novel in serial form, written scene by scene. Click here 2. She ended up sitting next to him…
DeBrie’s Alexandr: page 59
PAGE 58 PAGE 60 Click here While surviving years of abuse, poverty, crime, and prison, Alexandr Vikayanov was transforming into a lethal weapon. Chapter 1: “First Blood” Sick of all the vampire love? SO IS HE. www.meanpimento.com/alexandr Chapter 2: “Feed Your Faith, Starve Your Fear”