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Which Half David: A Short Exerpt
In this scene, American mission worker is living on the edge, running away from his marital problems, trying to outrun a police car after he had too much to drink. This excerpt gives you a glimpse of the fictional capital city of Sunay City. The car hit its siren and weaved through the cross-traffic in…
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The Reason is Now Clear
In this article “Mom is Shamed for Cake Slice in Kid’s Lunch,” I have begun to understand why the heavens didn’t want me to raise my kids in the United States. It would not have been pretty. And unfortunately, this article isn’t an outlier. There are (regrettably) way too many instances of schools telling parents what they…
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What’s the Future of Complication Like?
I’ve been thinking about my recent blog post The Good Old Less Complicated Days and started wondering about my kids: will they look back upon the 2010s as the “Good Old Less Complicated Days?” The premise of my post was this: our modern world has become so complicated that I sometimes wonder if life before gadgets and…
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The Good Old Less Complicated Days
My brain feels like it just experienced a two hour session as a tackle dummy, and no, it has nothing to do with having just watched the Oscars or network TV. It has to do with modern life. Silly old modern life. The kind of lives we lead in this day and age are insane,…
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My Final Two Penang Shows in the Works
I’ll be leaving my beloved Penang after 11 wonderful years. I decided to go out with a bang and produce two shows within one week during our school’s Fine Arts Festival in June. So this week, I fired up photoshop and did some mockups for both of the shows. I’ll have lots more to say…
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Going for a Trilogy
My, the consummate stand-alone novel guy, is going for a trilogy. I mentioned a while back that I was wading into virgin territory by starting a sequel to my finished yet unpublished novel “A Man too Old for a Place too Far.” As I’ve been working on the sequel, the stories line just keep ballooning…
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We Need More Booker T. Washington
As a history teacher, I made sure to excerpts from Booker T. Washington’s autobiography, “Up From Slavery,” into the curriculum. It is of course a fascinating and enlightening study of one boy’s rise out of slavery to become one of the foremost scholars and respected leaders in American history. Now his views did not come…
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Open Submission … (if, if, if …)
I’m currently looking to expand the reach of some of my plays which I admittedly have done very little with over the past couple of years. Researching on-line, I’ve come across some wonderful theatres and festivals who encourage new voices of the stage to submit their work. I’ve very encouraged by all of this. At…
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My Digital Move
I’m leaving Malaysia in four months. I’ve lived here for eleven years, but now it’s time to move on. So you know how this works: sell stuff you don’t want, pack the rest in crates, and shove the remaining in suitcases. That’s how you move. However, I also realized that there is a different kind…
Author Mark W Sasse 