The Comet That Created Religion
The Comet That Created Religionan essay by Colin Campbell 12,800 years ago humans had been through the cycle of ice ages several times. After wiping out the Neandertals and Denisovans and every other hominin, we had the planet to ourselves. We had art and music and technology, and our clothing was able to cope […]
My Four Hours In NY City
My Four Hours In NY City,A memoir by Colin Campbell You can’t just walk into a Madison Avenue office building with a head in a two-cubic-foot box and expect to get right on the elevator. Somebody rushed up to me and ordered me to take the box to the service elevator in the back. […]
Born Again
Born Againby Austin I Pullé Constance Fox wiped her profusely sweating face with her sleeve, lowered the window of her Range Rover and asked Deputy Martinez, “Do you know who I am?” “When you show me your license, I will” Martinez said. He looked at her license and then told her to step […]
Me and aLiza see i to i
Me and aLiza See i to i a story by Colin Campbell I finally found an AI app that is really useful–and it’s been a life-changing event! It was lots easier than I expected. On the first day, I used it to fix the traffic lights. Maybe you heard about it–they covered it on […]
The Juror Socrates
THE JUROR SOCRATES by Austin I Pullé “Then, we’re agreed? The Good Book says an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. The towel head gets the needle?” Pastor Bruce O’Hara asked his fellow jurors. The pastor was the foreman of the jury. Eleven others and him had been asked […]
My Three Friendbursts
My Three Friendburstsa memoir by Colin Campbell I had new blooms of friendship when I was 30, 42, and 53. I didn’t realize this until I was 67 and got an email out of nowhere from my ex-wife, Rhonda. We’d eloped from Detroit to California in 1969 and married at age 22 at […]
A Dog in the Manger
A Dog in the Manger A story by Austin I Pullé “Will cost pennies you say? And the market? Shit-hole countries! No way Jose!” He was talking about an inexpensive pill for the prevention for river blindness. “This is ours. Intellectual property is property. If we can’t sell it on TV and […]
At My Age
At My Agea poem by Irene Solovij At my age, I have experienced nature’s benevolent touch How it nurtured me, as I walked amidst its beauty Humbled by its power and might through the years But should anyone just tinker within my mind long enough They would discover a fetus still unborn, awaiting birth, seeking […]
Waxing and Waning
Waxing and Waninga memoir by Colin Campbell I fled my toxic situation in Detroit in October 1975 by taking a ten-day bus ride to Santa Barbara where my brother Scott lived. When I arrived I called him from the pay phone at the Greyhound station: “I’m here,” I said. Scott and I […]
We Are Here To Heal You
We Are Here To Heal Youby Colin Campbell “We are here to heal you.” The voice was loud enough to make the windows shake. The noise woke up Mary Whitlow. It was just dawn, Mary saw, and she wondered if she’d dreamed it. She hadn’t been sleeping very well since the accident that […]