fiction

  • My wife and I are watching the original “12 Angry Men” and we’ve had conversations about how it could be remade and with whom. I’m personally of the opinion that it needs to be updated with women in the cast because could you imagine Jane Lynch or Toni Collette matching up against Michael B. Jordan,…

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  • Pep Talks

    I have a question for the very few visitors I’ve received: why no comments? No emails? No questions? No LOVE?! I get it (a little bit). I’m not actually going anywhere and hawking a product for sale, so that certainly limits the opportunities for outside engagement. But I am checking. Speaking of creating a product,…

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  • A Small Victory

    I’m doing better! Actually, I should probably rephrase that. I’m doing better. (The exclamation point wasn’t entirely accurate.) Support (and meds) are doing their thing, along with a committed effort to improve our sleep hygiene by waking up earlier, going to bed earlier, and getting the enervating blue light of our smartphones out of our…

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  • We’re nearly two weeks into January and it already feels too late to wish everyone a happy 2026. Would that the news could be less awful, but here we are… That’s not an excuse for me to give in to my more despondent instincts, however. I have goals for this coming year, and I intend…

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  • Naissance

    Greetings! This is the beginning of my author platform, where I plan to post various short works of fiction and, perhaps someday, shill an actual published novel. Wouldn’t that be something? By way of introduction, my name is Marc Rivers and I live in the Portland, Oregon area in the United States. I primarily like…

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