Open in app

Sign In

Write

Sign In

Valerie MacEwan :: The Dead Mule
Valerie MacEwan :: The Dead Mule

401 Followers

Home

About

Published in

Genius in a Bottle

·Dec 26, 2020

Ghosting

Creative non-fiction about turning my life around — Used to be, if we didn’t want to talk to someone it was simple. Let’s see, how far back shall we go? To answering machines? 1980s. Then you just looked at the number glowing on the machine and thought “I’m not going to answer that, it’s Mabel.” If there was…

Ghosting

7 min read

Ghosting
Ghosting
Ghosting

7 min read


Dec 21, 2020

Stream of Consciousness

Back to old style blogging about my day — What today is all about. It’s about reading Apple News and finding out the Stimulus Package, whatever they want to call it, won’t be enough to stop the evictions. It’s about knowing we’re safe after spending three years in PTSD-induced poverty. Finally getting compensation from the VA, the Air Force…

History

5 min read

Stream of Consciousness
Stream of Consciousness
History

5 min read


Published in

Genius in a Bottle

·Dec 17, 2020

Honest to God Conversation with a Covid Denier

The deaths are not real and other madness — This is a honest to God conversation I had yesterday with friend, a young man who sat over ten feet away from me, on my front porch, telling me why Covid is not real. He agreed to social distancing and sitting outside because I told him it was the only…

Covid-19

4 min read

Honest to God Conversation with a Covid Denier
Honest to God Conversation with a Covid Denier
Covid-19

4 min read


Published in

Genius in a Bottle

·Dec 10, 2020

Read This! Great Christmas Story

True story, happened yesterday — My daughter Jane went surf fishing last weekend. Came home from the beach, rinsed off the salt water from her wading boots and left them on the front steps of her house to dry — about ten feet from the sidewalk. Two hours later, they were gone. These were distinctive…

Christmas Story

3 min read

Read This! Great Christmas Story
Read This! Great Christmas Story
Christmas Story

3 min read


Published in

Genius in a Bottle

·Dec 8, 2020

Poker Night at the Deer Camp

Fiction: the stuff of legend — The deer camp is about five miles from Thornton. It’s a hunting “lodge” in the middle of a passel of acres of pine plantation mixed with old growth forest. There are no other houses near it. This is Arkansas. The South. USA. The wood frame farm house, built around 1910…

Southern

10 min read

Poker Night at the Deer Camp
Poker Night at the Deer Camp
Southern

10 min read


Published in

Genius in a Bottle

·Oct 31, 2020

No More Celexa

Living in the moment — An odd time to stop taking anti-depressants, that’s what my therapist said. But he went along with it, helped me to titrate my dosage down to naught and let me talk about myself through the change in my mental state. I’d become numb over the years. …

Stress Relief

5 min read

No More Celexa
No More Celexa
Stress Relief

5 min read


Published in

Genius in a Bottle

·Oct 20, 2020

Helen Chapman Morgan: One American Hero

World War II and one member of my family — On December 3, 1944, my Aunt Helen wrote a letter to my mother. Mom was in Cincinnati, Ohio and Helen was following General Patton’s Army though Europe. She was a Red Cross volunteer. Young and idealistic, Helen joined the Red Cross seeking adventure. She wanted to contribute to the war…

Wwii

3 min read

Helen Chapman Morgan: One American Hero
Helen Chapman Morgan: One American Hero
Wwii

3 min read


Published in

Genius in a Bottle

·Oct 16, 2020

No One Is Coming Home

a prose poem —

Loneliness

1 min read

No One Is Coming Home
No One Is Coming Home
Loneliness

1 min read


Published in

Genius in a Bottle

·Sep 22, 2020

Non-Negotiable Securities

GiaB prompt #3: seasons — essay — Mom said “colors in nature match, always” and it’s true. The greens and golds, the reds and oranges of autumn never clash. It’s true in pottery too. Clay sucks up a glaze the same way nature offers her palate. All colors combine into a concrete whole. Each season appears with…

Autumn

2 min read

Non-Negotiable Securities
Non-Negotiable Securities
Autumn

2 min read


Published in

Genius in a Bottle

·Sep 19, 2020

Word Entrance

Poetry: wear the word in your mouth

Poetry

1 min read

Word Entrance
Word Entrance
Poetry

1 min read

Valerie MacEwan :: The Dead Mule

Valerie MacEwan :: The Dead Mule

401 Followers

The Dead Mule @deadmule writer, thinker, advocate for an ethical society, publisher www.deadmule.com online for 25 years.

Following
  • Dennett

    Dennett

  • Cory Doctorow

    Cory Doctorow

  • Darius Foroux

    Darius Foroux

  • Markham Heid

    Markham Heid

  • Zachary Phillips

    Zachary Phillips

See all (150)

Help

Status

Writers

Blog

Careers

Privacy

Terms

About

Text to speech

Teams