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Twenty years of roses, folks! Twenty years!
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The 43rd novelette, " – the Five Points – ", is almost done, as several irrevocable steps are taken, and somewhere, the water starts to fall:
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The 43rd novelette, " – the Five Points – ", continues, as Gloria Monday has an idea:
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This week's lost tale is "Hell in the Village" (1942) by Hugh Raymond - a rare appearance of von Junzt outside of the writings of Robert E. Howard and Lovecraft.
https://deepcuts.blog/2026/08/22/hell-in-the-village-1942-by-hugh-raymond/
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The 43rd novelette in the epic, " – the Five Points – ", has reached the halfway mark, as power is consolidated, forces are assessed, and also a battle rap:
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" – the Five Points – ", the 43rd novelette in the epic, continues, with a flashback, and a flash of inspiration:
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Starting today, the 43rd novelette in the epic, " – the Five Points – "
https://thecityofroses.com/story/?c=the-five-points
(In which selves are delineated, taxes recollected, matters of state attended to, a flower’s deployed, and donuts, and somewhere, water's falling.)
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And with this last fit of " – sun, dust, shadow – ", the 42nd novelette of the epic, it all comes crashing down:
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" – sun, dust, shadow – ", the 42nd novelette in the sequence, continues, with—but what on earth just happened?
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The 42nd novelette, " – sun, dust, shadow – ", continues, with a bit of the past, and glimpses of the future:
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The 42nd novelette in the epic, " – sun, dust, shadow, – ", is halfway done, and things keep happening that are not right, that are not right at all:
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• Good neighbors
• Ghost bicycles
• Supermarket sword-fights
• Riverside carnivals
• Urban bucolic
• Wickedly incantatory
• Gonzo noir
• Cater-cornered
• Unfussily sexy
• Primly queer
• Quietly radical
• Esoterically allusive
• Genderfunk
• GenrepunkThe city of Portland (with more sword fights) :
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The 42nd novelette continues, with laments, and a bang:
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The 42nd novelette, " – sun, dust, shadow – ", has begun:
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And with this final fit of the 41st novelette, " – arms - legs - heaven – ", the shape of the doom that approaches should prove, I hope, a touch more clear:
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The 41st novelette, " – arms - legs - heaven – ", is almost done, as it all begins to come a-tumbling down:
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The 41st novelette, " – arms - legs - heaven – ", continues, with a bit of, well, oops:
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The 41st novelette, " – arms - legs - heaven – ", continues, with vodka shots for all:
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The 41st novelette, " – arms - legs - heaven – ", continues, with a number of frustrated, thwartful attempts at conversation:
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The 41st novelette, " – arms - legs - heaven – ", has begun:
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Today, with this last little fit, the 40th novelette of the epic, " – dirty white noise – ", is complete:
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The 40th novelette, " – dirty white noise – ", is almost done:
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The 40th novelette, " – dirty white noise – ", continues, with, I mean, potted cliffs. Cliffs in little pots. Go on.
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The 40th novelette reaches its middle, as the sides of what may yet prove all manner of civil wars begin to harden:
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The 40th novelette in the epic, " – dirty white noise – ", begins in earnest:
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Folks, here we go, the 40th novelette in the epic, " – dirty white noise – ", kicks off this morning, with what we are all pretty sure had to happen:
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And with a this pleasingly ominous interlude, the 39th novelette, " – Beautiful, we are – ", comes to a close:
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The 39th novelette in City of Roses, " – Beautiful, we are – ", is almost done:
https://thecityofroses.com/story/?c=beautiful-we-are
(In which one sword is retrieved, and another, an interview is side-stepped, a memory’s restored, a necessity’s indulged, and a dog is scritched.)
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Novelette no. 39, " – Beautiful, we are – ", is almost over—here's a monologue, and an action sequence; just remember: speaking /is/ action:
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The 39th novelette, " – Beautiful, we are – ", continues, with a couple of bad break-ups, and an inspirational speech—