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Help, Facebook Is Killing My Blog! How I Survived Social Networking and Make It Work for Me

Posted by Joshua Bradley Minton in December 14th, 2008  
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But I can’t claim artistic integrity and career fretting as the primary reasons for my lack of publishment on this site famous only to myself and a few brilliant others. A new mistress has moved into my writing boudoir–Facebook. I currently have 187 friends which are actually people I know and spending less than 30 minutes a day, I can keep up with all of them.

Getting Into Knockemstiff

Posted by Josh in March 21st, 2008  
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Something you may not know about Ohio is that we’ve produced some really great writers. The only problem is that most of them aren’t popular. There is a huge difference between being a great writer and being a popular writer. Very few writers are both and most that are, aren’t both very [...]

On Writing in Day Tight Compartments

Posted by Josh in November 1st, 2007  
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I’ve tried just about every writing style you can think of. I don’t mean haikus and magical realism or any of that shit. I’m talking about the actual process of writing. I’ve tried stream of consciousness, just letting it all go like pissing in a rainstorm. I’ve tried mapping shit out [...]

Phikeia by Joshua Minton

Posted by Joshua Bradley Minton in June 12th, 2006  
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I was sleep walking through work
when I saw a face as familiar
as my own, a fraternity
brother I’d lost contact with ten years ago.
I put aside the professional
and put on the good times
mask. The one I wore in Panama City
in 1995. Back when Skerski was still alive
and he and Kohler drove that golf cart
from [...]

Dead Man Comes Back to Life and Vows to End the War on Terror and Save Humanity: An Excerpt from Ded Speaks by Joshua Minton

Posted by Joshua Bradley Minton in June 1st, 2006  
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An Excerpt from Dead Speaks
 by Joshua Minton
It was 5:30 in the afternoon before Ded Speaks shuffled up to the lectern to unwind the world. He had no papers or outline of what he was going to say but the message burned orange flame in his ancient mind.
Ded Speaks died in 1932–he was 87 years [...]

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