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Friday March 14th 2025
Searching ”“ A Serial Novelle Chapter 26: “Little Do We Know”
By Patrick Cabello Hansel
Little did Angel know that the man driving the delivery van was not the flower lady”'s son. He did not know what her son looked like, and he could not have known that he had been carjacked a few minutes before. And so when the man honked the horn in front of the shop and motioned impatiently for Angel to climb in, Angel did exactly that.
“So you need a ride, huh?” the man asked. He was crouched over the steering wheel, his hooded grey sweatshirt pulled tight over his ears. Angel thought he smelled something strange in the man.
“Yes, thank you so much,” Angel replied. He noticed that although the heater was on full blast, he still felt chilled. Down to his bones cold. The van turned onto 28th Street and headed west, the snow seeming to blow in from all directions of the compass at once.
“Is that a present for your lady?” he asked.
“No, it”'s for my parents,” Angel said
“What”'d you get ”˜em?” the man asked.
“Poinsettias.”
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MLK Author of A Memoir of Injustice Mayday Bookstore on May 13th 7 PM
Martin Luther King, Jr. was felled by an assassin”'s bullet on April 4, 1968 in Tennessee. The lone gunman, escaped fugitive James Earl Ray, was arrested for the crime and spent the rest of his life behind bars. Case closed.
Except for one problem: he was innocent, and even King”'s wife and son agree.
A Memoir of Injustice, by investigative journalist Tamara Carter, provides a behind-the-scenes look at the life of Ray, as told to her by Jerry Ray, his younger sibling. As Jerry freely admits, the Ray family was very dysfunctional from the word go. Many members spent time in prison, including the father, and the Ray brothers frequently found themselves in the Federal pen for any number of crimes. The book goes on to tell what it was like to be dirt poor, always on the run and is populated with all the nefarious characters that inhabit that world.
The elder Ray had rented a room in Bessie”'s Flophouse on the orders of a mysterious drug smuggler he had met named Raoul. This was on the same day as the assassination. In addition, a 30.06 rifle that Ray had bought, again on Raoul”'s instructions, was found nearby in an arcade.… Read the rest “MLK Author of A Memoir of Injustice Mayday Bookstore on May 13th 7 PM”
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Thor and Pandora
by Peter Molenaar
To the ancient observer, the approaching cumulonimbus cloud appeared as a giant hammer from which lightning bolts penetrated the earth. Hence, the hammer-wielding Viking god associated with thunder storms and destruction, but also healing and renewal, was born in the people”'s mind. Thor was his name.
In the modern world, Thor”'s considerable legacy is honored once a week (“Thor”'s day”).
But what redemption might he bestow upon the suffering people of Japan? Curiously, there is a chemical element which also bears his name. Thorium, atomic number 90, has emerged as the alternative to uranium.
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