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    Stories and poems by Thomas Hudson

    Grumpy book review: Lapvona
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    Grumpy book review: Lapvona

    Tom Hudson December 7, 2023

    I don't fit into the intended audience of most contemporary fiction reviewers so I try to avoid them. But a recent YouTube reviewer had one of my favorites, Blood Meridian, on his top fiction list…

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    Book review: Ink Black Heart
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    Book review: Ink Black Heart

    Tom Hudson September 27, 2022

    I recently listened to the audio version of the detective novel The Ink Black Heart by Robert Galbraith. Galbraith is the pen name used by J.K. Rowling of Harry Potter fame. This novel is the…

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    Review: Killing Commendatore
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    Review: Killing Commendatore

    Tom Hudson March 21, 2021

    I became familiar with the Japanese author Haruki Murakami during my current fiction-gorging phase. How could I have been unfamiliar with such a gifted author? It's not an excuse but I go through long periods…

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    Poem: From the backseat of my aunt’s Chevy

    Tom Hudson October 16, 2014October 16, 2014Leave a comment

    From the backseat her red hair an accusation. Thin, careworn, and cunning burnt forever by that long-ago season; she knows the wrong things. Dissolute pools trapping the blue sky, her mascara-smeared eyes lie, looking backly.…

    One paragraph story: First day with The Betty Jane

    Tom Hudson February 24, 2014Leave a comment

    Here is a short--one paragraph(!)--story I wrote: The day was sunny when we launched our new boat on the Huron River. But Lake Erie weather is notoriously changeable and by the time we covered half of the…

    Poem: On and on played they

    Tom Hudson January 28, 2014Leave a comment

    In the corner of the ruined room, she was crying, frightened of herself and angry at us. 'Freedom is full of monsters. Just get out.' I ran to summer in the next room, where the…

    Poem: Why do I remember this?

    Tom Hudson January 12, 2014January 12, 2014Leave a comment

    Why do I remember? I've carried this, and now--see?--here it is. Guided by a compulsion (that has never left me) I painted the walls of my mother's house the entire length of the hallway; floating…

    Poem: Full-Blood Moon

    Tom Hudson August 19, 2013August 19, 20131 Comment

    Through the narrow window, the full-blood moon floated in the black water of the bathtub, next to where you laid with your face against the wall sobbing. Pressing my cheek to yours, I glimpsed, the…

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