Monday, May 30, 2016

Indy 500 Crowd Shots May 29, 2016

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WTF did you say?
(My caption - she was giving him some lip.)
 
 
'merica.
 
 
Cheezcake
 
 
Heading home.

Monday, April 11, 2016

Not One of Us #55

Contents:

A Drizzle Still Counts As Rain, by Patricia Russo
The Nihilist’s Prayer (poem), by Laura Sloan Patterson
The Choices of Foxes, by Sonya Taaffe
Started Small (poem), by David Kopaska-Merkel
The Oracle Sings a Torch Song, by Gillian Daniels
Daughter of Oak and Ash (poem), by Deborah Guzzi
A Voice Old (poem), by K.S. Hardy
The Water Cure, by Alexander Leger-Small
The Daughter Who Left (poem), by Holly Day

Art: John Stanton

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Saturday, April 9, 2016

Surreal Nightmares



Authors for Surreal Nightmares

J.C.Burkart
Ron Richmond
Mathias Jansson
Aaron Vlek
William Cook
A. Henry Keene
Stephen McQuiggan
A. Henry Keene and James Ward Kirk
Jaap Boekestein
Donald Armfield
Eric LaRocca
Sheldon Woodbury
Essel Pratt
Robert Holt
Jake Walters
Tom Howard
Calvin Demmer
Kyle Rader
Alex S. Johnson
Ron Richmond

Cover by John Stanton

Another shot...

 
 

And, a little side-story from that shoot.


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Monday, January 18, 2016

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A Not One of Us Special Publication

Contents:

Do You Know What Happened, by Patricia Russo
Sarcophagus of Healing (poem), by John Philip Johnson
Harlequin and Bird, by Mat Joiner
Anybody That Looked Like That (poem), by Sonya Taaffe
The Red Round Eye of War, by Erik Amundsen
Sister Agnes Tells About the Crocodile (poem), by Laura Sloan Patterson
M, by Russell Hemmell
The Skin Changer (poem), by Alexandra Seidel
Underdown (poem), by Neal Wilgus
Cars, by Joe Scott
Wallpaper (poem), by Michelle Watters
Art: John Stanton

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Tuesday, December 1, 2015

Hidden in Plain Sight



AUTHOR LIST

Jay Helmstutler
Alex S. Johnson
Taylor White
Norbert Gora
Jeff Bowles
Zeb Carter
Matthew Wilson
James Michael Shoberg
John Grey
Will Cohen
Chris Thompson
Erin Britt
Justin Hunter
David J. Gibbs
Johnny Worthen
Erin Britt
Donald McCarthy
Barry Rosenberg
John Grey
Hillary Lyon
Bob McNeil
Philip Thorogood
Fred McGavran

Cover art and Design by John D. Stanton
Model: Flo Stanton

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Wednesday, November 25, 2015

Double Troubles Part 3

Dear reader, I realize in these posts that I’m stretching the definition of “doppelganger” a bit beyond the classic supernatural connotation, but I think I have a good reason, if you will bear with me.

In the spring after our son was born, I ordered some supplies from a mail-order catalog, including a set of diaper clips – learning to diaper a happy, squirmy baby made me fear poking him with the traditional diaper pin, and this seemed to be a nice solution to that anxiety. Weeks passed without the order arriving, and after contacting the company, I received an irate letter accusing me of being a thief, accompanied with a copy of a UPS receipt purportedly signed by yours truly. It wasn’t my signature, and the address was on the opposite side of town.

I managed to track down this other “John Stanton” and met with him at his house. We both dropped a few names, and it turned out that we weren’t related. When the package was delivered, he was in the process of moving to his new home, and he had the box addressed to me on a table by his front door, still unopened. I had ordered the shipment sent to my P.O. Box, but it had been shipped by UPS, which simply had delivered it to the first John Stanton they could find.

My documentation of the miss-delivery earned me a profuse apology from the author of the above-mentioned irate letter.

Fourteen years later, I purchased a used gray Nissan Stanza from a dealership not far from home. A few weeks later, I contacted the dealer regarding some minor issue, and when the salesman read my address from his computer screen, it wasn’t mine, but it seemed familiar. Not far from the address where I had picked up the “Happy Family Products” package with the diaper clips all those years before. It seems that the other John Stanton had purchased the same make, model and color car, from the same dealership, just the day before I had bought mine. The only difference was, he had an automatic transmission while I had purchased one with a stick.

One of the lighter moments in my eerie, discordant dance with Synchronicity.

Know Your Double 



Saturday, November 7, 2015

Gothic Tales of Terror



Gothic Tales of Terror
edited by Krista Clark Grabowski

Contents:

Stephanie Ellis   Leave
Carmen Tudor   Memory to Perish
Dona Fox          The Reverant of Shelby House
Brandon Ketchum   The Grinning Cat
DJ Tyrer          Hollenstein
Flo Stanton       Speech to the Prometheus League
Michale Seese     Who Will Die Tonight?
Mischa Herwin     The Governess
Scott Forman      The House that Jack Built
David Schultz II  The House of Wellington
K.Z. Morano       Hysteria
Sheldon Woodbury  The Castle at the Edge of the World

Cover art/design by John D. Stanton

Available now at Amazon.com