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    Steve's Stories and Poems First Edition
    Steve's Stories and Poems First Edition
    Steve's Stories and Poems First Edition
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    Steve's Stories and Poems First Edition

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    Steve's Stories and Poems First Edition. The writing of Ali - Sam was a long process. Years of bashing out ideas and disregarding most but finding a trend and an element of clarity in the pursuit of attacking at many angles. Mostly Sally is trying to work on her own character.

    It isn't necessary to know the novel to learn from the stories. They are recommended for college and university students. Those are the folk looking to figure out what it all means.

    And that is the objective. To figure out what it all means. What is happening in the world and how are we getting on in it.

    We are entering the space age. For real in real reality. And this is the biggest event in the Milky Way. No exaggeration. So we want to understand it and do it right. So read the stories. Understand them. And save the world.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSteve Howard
    Release dateSep 10, 2019
    ISBN9780463875018
    Steve's Stories and Poems First Edition
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    Steve Howard

    Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada 1960. Moved to London, Ontario, Canada in 1967. Started playing hockey and piano. Went to Sir Wilfred Laurier High School and played the trumpet.Studied Architectural Technology at Fanshawe College of Applied Arts and Sciences. Started playing guitar and writing a little. On a trip to the mountains in 1982 with a friend I decided, or was awakened to the knowledge that I was going to pursue writing. Graduated 1984 and moved to Toronto.Moved to Saarbrücken, Germany in 1993.Have traveled many places in North, Middle and South America and Europe.Besides reading and writing also work on photography and music.

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      Steve's Stories and Poems First Edition - Steve Howard

      Steve’s Stories and Poems

      First Edition

      Stories and Poems Found In

      Ali Sam - Erapa

      Steve Howard

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      Steve’s Stories and Poems

      First Edition

      Copyright © 2019 by Steve Howard 773U5

      All rights reserved. As far as that goes. Portions of this publication of Steve’s Stories and Poems may be reproduced in printed or electronic form with reference to the copyright owner and the publisher of this book, Steve Howard, for editorial or educational purposes.

      This is a work of fiction and any resemblance to persons, living or dead, or business establishments, events or locales are the author’s imagination and are used fictitiously. The use or misuse of any trademarks is not authorized, associated with, or sponsored by the trademark owners.

      Introduction

      In the First Edition of Steve’s Stories and Poems we feature the stories written by the characters of Ali Sam – Erapa. Sally is responsible for most of the stories. She took an interest in writing to give her some balance and release from her job. Her job is murder. She also likes the professor. She sometimes writes for children and sometimes she loses sight of the boundaries. Artemis contributes a very cute kids story. Zara adds a few powerful poems. And a couple silly ones. I could explain how come and why but that is one of the fun things about reading: figuring out what the writer is trying to discover.

      Table of Content

      The Story of Abram

      Artemis reads this Bible story to her Grandmother. It is a translation by her grandfather from the original Hebrew. Check The Holy Scriptures translated by Jewish Publication Society, also an excellent translation. The story is significant to most every story ever written since that story. It is the story that justifies the actions of the world’s major monotheistic religions. We still live in a world where we need to understand this story.

      A Fable of a Totalitarian Police State Dictatorship called The One World Order where the laws are the laws from the fables in the Torah and the High Priests are the Rulers of the Aftermath.

      This is the kind of thing Artemis had to deal with growing up with her grandparents. This is a story her grandfather wrote. He might have written it for his granddaughter who was a crazy lawyer who went against a big enemy. And she lost. But she is not in the story. Just this story is in it and Artemis reads it to herself. She is mostly alone on the farm.

      Bunny Stop

      Bunny Stop is Sally’s first written story. She writes it for the professor’s creative writing class. She is sitting in at the university. She didn’t finish high school so she can’t go officially. But she is a welcome sit in. Something your narrator did a couple times in Toronto. Sally is in Washington. This is a children’s story. The first two ain’t but this one is. It’s very sweet, like Sally can be, and quite clever with reference to myth and the nature of our brains. So, grown-ups can read it too.

      Mammal’s Revenge

      Sally likes to learn about the world and how things work. She enjoys politics and anthropology, of all things. She is curious about the history of the planet and the incredible journey of our ancient ancestors. This is her personification of the end of the dinosaur reign. Also okay for children.

      The Boy Who Held A Grudge

      This is the only story written by Artemis. She just sat down one night and wrote it. It is a sweet children’s story. For any age group. Little Luke is the boy who tried to hold all his grudges. Luckily, he is also a clever boy.

      Crime of the Century

      This is one of those what if stories. Sally’s first longer story. She normally didn’t talk much in class but got caught up in the world famous 911 terror religion day official story what she couldn’t accept. It was all too contrived and too convenient. That was her angle for her story. Silversnake, the owner, was the conductor.

      Boston’s Best Bug Meat

      Artemis wrote this after reading too many Reader’s Digests. Just a short silly interlude. An advertisement for a company that doesn’t yet exists. But Artemis figures it will soon and wanted to contribute. Feel free to use it if you are selling bug meat in Boston.

      A Real Fish Story

      Sally could have gone into a little more detail on this but their time in the woods didn’t play much of a roll in what was before or what would come. It does show how she and Billy get on. She changes his name for the story.

      Zara and Suzanna’s Poems

      The first poem without a title is a poem recited to me in Guyana after we had been talking about the nature of business in the country. It is a very short story of what happened when the men from Europe came to claim the land that had been inhabited by the folk now called Amerindian.

      Zara and Suzanna write a poem together. Zara writes a couple of limericks and so does Suzanna. The rest of the poems are from Zara. She is at an age where hormones or social confusion and that sort of thing may influence her nihilism. Or let’s say bleak existentialism.

      Thywill Bedon

      Sally goes at the historical establishment in this story. It is one of those some other where and when settings. The time is similar to the Roman times. Kings and Queens and castles and peasants. There is a sudden end to war. A love story and the rise of tyranny. Thywill Bedon becomes the new world leader.

      Asteroid Revisited

      Sally has a slight return of the end of the dinosaur reign. Again just a short story from the mammal perspective. The catastrophe that inadvertently gave way for mammals to take over the planet was an important lesson to remember. Especially now that humans have out done the dinosaurs. Disaster is the one thing that might stop us, or them if you are an intelligent other creature, from continuing for millions of years as the dominant evolving with technology species. Not just as Earth bound creatures.

      Four Kids Landed On Mars

      Randy found this story in the maze of the Internet shortly after he had discovered the Internet. He had always known it was there but he had never taken the time to explore the vast treasures of the human mind. The story is almost a children’s story.

      Diary of Mary

      Now this is a real treasure. Artemis stole an ancient manuscript from the Vatican. It is the diary of the woman we know as Mother Mary. The translation is not perfect because the text is a mess, Artemis is not a translator and her Hebrew is not the best. Mary was not even rudimentary in her writing skills. But Artemis does a good job of bringing it to life.

      Barbara Alba New Report

      I was as happy to hear from Barbara Alba as the news she reported. Bill Chase kept his research to himself for 36 years. Until he finally makes his discovery. Their discovery. He has a research team. Something Randy found doing that thing we used to do in the Internet. Surfing.

      Once Upon A Time

      An unoriginal title for Sally’s first fairytale. Fairytale writing was a therapeutic process for Sally. She had been reading and studying holy books and other fables and became fascinated with the madness of fairytales. She had read far too many old fairytales when she decided to write a few of her own. Her five or seven little fairytales all pay tribute to the tradition of the classics. Sally’s first fairytale is about a little girl who doesn’t know she is a princess. She isn’t. The story is a disaster.

      The Loneliest Monk

      Sally was having a very bad day when she wrote this one. Billy was getting on her nerves. He thought Sally was being overly cruel to her characters. She wasn’t, of course. She was just sticking with convention. To better understand why she didn’t like it. Any of it.

      The Goat Fucker

      The best thing about this piss of prose is that it is short. The point goes no farther than to show the madness of fairytales. Sally wants it to be perfectly clear that madness is fine in art but not good in a guidebook for the morals of the peasants.

      Rule The World

      Also very short fairytale inspired

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