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The PBS Painter's Tale
Copyright 2011, Paul Hawkins, Smashwords Edition * License Notes This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may...
Paul Hawkins
May 19 min read
Gold
Ancient guilt as gilt is shared before an eon passes Rubbed from brass Glass for a dressing room diminished even by one bursting bulb...
Paul Hawkins
Apr 261 min read


Steel Skates
As a girl she used to skate in the shadow of that school and convent, the steel wheels of her roller skates striking sparking twilight,...
Paul Hawkins
Oct 18, 20242 min read


On attending a Rick Davies/Supertramp gig on Long Island
Part 3 of X New York City observations, essentially related in a tangential way to my journey from the prairie to see Rick’s gig: The JFK...
Paul Hawkins
Oct 15, 20244 min read


Excerpt
From the book I’m working on - something to offend everyone, an exercise in paranoia: ———- The substratum of disaster was laid with...
Paul Hawkins
Oct 1, 20242 min read


Spirit Halloween Shop
There is no place more depressing than a #SpiritHalloween Shop, always in a vacant storefront in a dying mall and air conditioning...
Paul Hawkins
Sep 29, 20241 min read


Asphalt and Dragonflies
PDF: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qkToJutCcG0VUqSlsLR21C6J5nsO-p6T/view?usp=drivesdk It was an angry morning that threatened a storm...
Paul Hawkins
Sep 5, 202411 min read


Four quartets: some observations from my recent trip to Philadelphia, by this old Oklahoman
The Lawyer Dear kids, I am still in Philly, and the lawyer’s office is in a goddamn huge building at least 50 stories tall and taking up...
Paul Hawkins
Aug 9, 20246 min read


Absolution, Part II. Jimmie Halliday
A fragment in progress, from decades ago --------------------- (Authors note: F Scott Fitzgerald had a famous short story called...
Paul Hawkins
Jul 24, 20243 min read


Abba-Zaba
Chapter 1 Dear Professor [X], esteemed friend across continents and colleague and expert in Macro-Plastics (giant robots), as promised, I...
Paul Hawkins
Jul 20, 20241 min read


Fred Hoover: Crime Crime Buster
"Get me $40 in marked ones. I have some very minor criminal activity to investigate." Such is a typical excerpt from the long-lost...
Paul Hawkins
Jul 8, 20242 min read


An Incident at the Public Pool
From my ongoing Readers’ Digest “Adventures in Suburbia” series. While swimming with my kids at the public pool yesterday, I found a...
Paul Hawkins
Jul 3, 20241 min read
Principle of Motion - A Fragment
Copyright 2024, Paul Hawkins Excerpted from the Omnibus of my lit over several decades. Prometheus Unwound: https://a.co/d/iIfthpO ————...
Paul Hawkins
Jun 15, 20243 min read


Father’s Day Sermonette, 2024
I think that for this year‘s Father’s Day I will record a short video sermonette entitled “What is a Father?”, designed to match the most...
Paul Hawkins
Jun 14, 20241 min read


Smoke
A poem from 2 decades ago. I am working to put together a small volume of my few poems and humorous short-shorts, led in by something...
Paul Hawkins
May 21, 20241 min read


The Hawk and the Chihuahua (sans Carlos Castenada)
Right in the middle of downtown Norman yesterday, as we were driving home from church, we saw this very noble hawk swoop down from the...
Paul Hawkins
Oct 23, 20231 min read


Yardbirds, Jawboning, and Shooting the Sh##
Just got back from getting my haircut, and my stylist (I guess men have stylists) was the happiest, funniest, most insightful yardbird...
Paul Hawkins
Oct 23, 20231 min read


A Brief Autobiographical History of My Life vis-vis the Metaphysics of Radio
John Dos Passos' prose poem "When You Try to Find the People" (1948) appealed to an already existing interest of mine in radio . My dad...
Paul Hawkins
Jul 8, 20233 min read


Punchafish - A Blue Collar Moby Dick Story of Man vs Nature and Himself (Cliff Notes)
Copyright 2023 Paul Hawkins It was a big, brutish, ugly fish that might as well have been from another era. It swam in a big glass-walled...
Paul Hawkins
Jun 24, 20237 min read


From Adventures in Real Life!: An Incident in Cancun
Long but true: an experience in Cancun I want to record this before I forget. Once several years ago I was at the cheapest all inclusive...
Paul Hawkins
Jun 21, 20232 min read
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