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Slow Boat Media LLC New American Literature for now people. Caleb Abercrombie, the constant throughout the seven stories comprising Reveries and Cool Brass, is a late Boomer.

Fortunate birth let him and his generational segment avoid polio, benefit from the civil rights struggle, as well as let the draft bypass them. On the downside, they also missed coonskin caps and the sole Woodstock that mattered. Yet like those millions whose nascence began with the New Frontier, Abercrombie and his cohort enjoyed a greater enfranchised, less traumatized nurturing. Now entering hi

s sixth decade, Abercrombie maneuvers on a stage where he surveys more than strives. He's neither preoccupied by making sense of life or reconciling past actions. Unburdened by popular mental constipation, Abercrombie is that too rare American. Satisfied. His road isn't always straight and smooth. His conflicts, such as they are, emanate more from being amid the human moil rather than after his own agitation. Paz Duarte, dream to some men, night mare to others, occupies generous swaths of Reveries' and Cool Brass' picaresques as well as good portions of Abercrombie's attention. He esteems Paz. He finds she embodies unfettered womanhood, a distinction which often unnerves the insecure. Perhaps Paz and Abercrombie fulfill one another. Or maybe they're mutually exploitive. A question for third parties to answer. Unseen but stamping Reveries, though forthright and present throughout Cool Brass, the spirit of Marianne Messing inhabits Abercrombie. As Monte and Fili Vargas, a couple with whom Abercrombie, uh, negotiates, might attest, she surely is the woman who pushed him towards the man he became. Paul Knox, a kumpel of Abercrombie's from way back, would concur. While appearing middle-aged men above reproach, a surprise yesterday colors their outward propriety as it brushes either's sense of mortality. Again, Reveries and Cool Brass are frank, amoral and unsentimental. Attributes which shouldn't be read as crass, immoral and callous. Both are candid, uncluttered, each clearly observed and observing.

09/17/2025

Stepping into the low degrees of a Selknam night had Lisa McKenzie-McKenzie and Matt Pfarrer bundling inside heavy coats PDQ. He yanked his watch cap from a coat pocket and rolled it down his ears.…

Argentina is real. What follows is fiction. It is the seventh part of a serial.
08/29/2025

Argentina is real. What follows is fiction. It is the seventh part of a serial.

Upon reaching the driver’s scheduled break stop where passengers might stretch their legs as well as grab compressed bites to eat, that was while letting off those who’d reached their destination b…

Argentina is real. What follows is fiction. It is the sixth episode of a serial.
08/06/2025

Argentina is real. What follows is fiction. It is the sixth episode of a serial.

Each sailor’s recollection started sometime in early April 1945. And he remembered exactly where he was, doing what, if any, task he performed on that fateful May 8th when the news that became know…

Argentina is a country. The story is fiction. This is the third entry of a serial.
06/26/2025

Argentina is a country. The story is fiction. This is the third entry of a serial.

Matt Pfarrer’s week started the best way possible. After awakening then brewing his morning coffee, he checked his laptop for emails that had arrived overnight. One of the subject lines consisted o…

10/31/2024

Love it that movers are at the Rudester's apartment waiting for him to appear with the keys. The movers need entry so they can vacate his soon-to-be former premises in order to satisfy a court judgment against him. Hey. Better than the kick in the ass Steve Bannon got. At least America's former mayor didn't get sent up for a four-month jolt inside a house with a big yard.

10/31/2024

Perhaps if MAGA had stayed awake during grammar classes punctuation wouldn't have angered it. "Supporter's" not "supporters'."

10/31/2024

Saw the scab riding around in the cab of a garbage truck. He should've been bagged and tossed into the loader.

10/31/2024

MAGA. Garbage in. Garbage all the time.

10/31/2024

Great. There's a whole Bund rally dedicated to insulting Puerto Ricans, blacks and Jews, and no MAGA steps forward to disavow the filth. Joe Biden gives an honest appraisal of MAGA and the deplorables become snowflakes. If you're going to give it, MAGA, you must take it.

10/30/2024

Even Republicans who went out and bought a soul so they'd have one to sell know what a crucial b***r the Bund rally at Madison Square Garden was.

10/29/2024
10/29/2024

MAGAs sure have been cricket-quiet when defending the Madison Square Garden Bund rally. I wonder why.

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