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About Me

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I already have a memoir available on Amazon. The first two chapters are on my blog about two inches above. More to come? Depends if anyone actually gives a mild ____.------- ----__________________________________________________

My Interests

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I'd like to meet:

The Dead: Charlie Chaplin, Orson Welles, Kurt Cobain, Edgar Allan Poe;Alive: Tim Burton, Harrison Ford, a literary agent ___________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ _______________
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Television:

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Books:

Collected Stories of Edgar Allan Poe, Invisible Man, Grapes of Wrath, Catcher in the Rye, David Copperfield, Frankenstein, Paradise Lost, Song of Solomon, War of the Worlds, Metamorphosis (Kafka), The Idiot, Notes from Underground, In Cold Blood, Catch-22______

Heroes:

Jesus Christ, Charlie Chaplin, Tim Burton, Kurt Cobain, Edgar Allan Poe, Alfred Hitchcock, John Lennon, Bob Dylan, Job/Paul (and other Biblical people), Ben Roethlesberger, Joel Osteen, Fish Oil, GNC Maximum Greens, Myspace/yourspace/God's grace/my wife's face, Jill, Madeline, Jack ...peanut butter milkshakes - I DRINK 'EM UP!!.____________________________________

My Blog

The End - The Son Can Dream

Epilogue C Standing eerily in the dark are rows of palm trees. No colors can be seen for their distance in the night, but the tall shapes of them are unmistakable. Long, thin bodies belo...
Posted by Mike Cruz, Writer on Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:04:00 PST

10 years (Behind the Son Can Dream)

The last day of ’97 I began what turned out to be The Son Can Dream. It was going to be my New Year’s Resolution. But I remember thinking that day that resolutions never stick...
Posted by Mike Cruz, Writer on Tue, 08 Jan 2008 10:11:00 PST

Epilogue B (The Son Can Dream)

EPILOGUE - B Light flashes from the television, the only thing lit in the dark room. The broken music of a baby swing on low batteries beats the television for the sounds of the living room.&nbs...
Posted by Mike Cruz, Writer on Fri, 21 Mar 2008 09:14:00 PST

The Last Chapter (The Son Can Dream)

54.0 Stars fill the sky like skin fills the pours. People sit in machines that travel them over the hard-ridden streets. Headlights glare the way. Somewhere a couple unfolds t...
Posted by Mike Cruz, Writer on Fri, 21 Mar 2008 09:11:00 PST

Chapters 52 - 53 (The Son Can Dream)

52.0 "S-speaky spaney?" "No," he shakes his head as he so often does. "We’ve got one guy that does, but he’s busy right now. Can I help you?" "Ss..s. Speaky ...
Posted by Mike Cruz, Writer on Fri, 21 Mar 2008 08:26:00 PST

Chapter 51.1 (The Son Can Dream)

51.1 From the tilted opening of an orange mouth, a movable line of steaming coffee seems impetuously drawn to the bottom of his hardened mug. "You mind if I smoke?" Right off the bat, he s...
Posted by Mike Cruz, Writer on Fri, 21 Mar 2008 07:55:00 PST

Chapters 50 & 51 (The Son Can Dream)

50.0 A paper "but" dries into his puckering lips. They stick to kissing the very "but" it sucks smoke from. Eyes forget their many different positions on this to stick straight into the s...
Posted by Mike Cruz, Writer on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:15:00 PST

Rosebud - The High School Musical

Horror. You know the Brando scene in Apocalypse Now? Anyone who's read a biography on Orson Welles knows that the famous novel Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (the book upon which Ap...
Posted by Mike Cruz, Writer on Fri, 07 Mar 2008 10:07:00 PST

Chapters 47-49 (The Son Can Dream)

47.0 Some laughing and a couple of claps go here. He paces the stage. Maybe he's waiting for more applause; maybe he's stalling to remember the next part of his act. "You ever wo"&nb...
Posted by Mike Cruz, Writer on Tue, 12 Feb 2008 12:34:00 PST

Chapters 45 & 46 (The Son Can Dream)

45.0 "Pizza? We didn't order any pizza!" "Weoh wech weahweh!" The crummy music sifts through the cracks in the door and mainly out the open window of the artist's upstairs apartment...
Posted by Mike Cruz, Writer on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 08:02:00 PST