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Soul Screaming #5 – a weekly newsletter by perhaps the world’s oldest emerging author

by Christopher Ryan I keep thinking of a line from a cult classic movie as I watch updates on the long-delayed return of astronauts Butch and Suni (Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams) to our shores after nine months in space. … Continue reading

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SOUL SCREAMING #4 – a weekly newsletter by perhaps the world’s oldest emerging author

by Christopher Ryan THIS JUST IN: Internet rabbit holes are multiplying and turning darker by the day! We turn now to recent social media victim, emerging author Christopher Ryan. “I was just innocently scrolling through YouTube and Instagram,” he confessed, “and … Continue reading

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SOUL SCREAMING #3 – a weekly newsletter by perhaps the world’s oldest emerging author

by Christopher Ryan We’re living in historical times. Depending on where you are politically, this is the best of times or the worst of times. But no matter where on the spectrum of opinions you stand, for most of us, … Continue reading

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SOUL SCREAMING – a weekly newsletter by perhaps the world’s oldest emerging author

by Christopher Ryan Humans make interesting connections. When our father passed, my sister started seeing cardinals (way before Kacey Musgraves released her lovely tribute to John Prine). When my wife Glorious’ father passed, we started seeing blue jays. Before anyone … Continue reading

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SOUL SCREAMING: A Weekly Newsletter by Perhaps the World’s Oldest Emerging Author

By Christopher Ryan It has taken a ridiculously long time to decide how to go about writing this newsletter. I used every excuse and considered a kaleidoscope of possible formats and content that ate up years. Yeah, years. Procrastination, anyone? … Continue reading

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America at the Crossroads, Again

We at the abyss, again. Yesterday a 20-year-old kid tried to assassinate a presidential candidate. Ripped his ear. Killed an innocent person and critically injured two others. That young American also traumatized his fellow Americans. All of us. Republicans. Democrats. … Continue reading

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January 3, 2023 – Fussing Comes to an End and a Project is Complete

by Christopher Ryan I should have been editing Soul Scream. Or completing the uploading of Genius High. But opportunity called and I dove back in to … poetry. Dark horror crime poetry about the most modern of monsters. And I … Continue reading

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Music Monday – Wandering YouTube Yields a Moving Tom Petty Documentary

by Christopher Ryan It had been a long day working on final fussing over a narrative horror poetry collection, planning the final forms of a horror fiction series, wrestling with publishing schedules for those and two novel reboots, and discussing … Continue reading

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Jan. 2, 2023 – Making Wee Hours Wandering More Productive

By Christopher Ryan Occasionally, I awake in the wee hours, brain alive with thoughts that need immediate address (“Get Cheerios! Rewrite that chapter! Hey, let’s see what the bathroom looks like.”). Usually, this results in meandering around before discovering my … Continue reading

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Jan. 1, 2023 – a Pause Before Leaping (and a Cover Reveal!)

Today isn’t a new beginning, nor is it the turning of a page. I have been planning all this for a long time. What I am about attempt is to spend 2023 doing is neither guaranteed to work nor a … Continue reading

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