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Haunted from the Inside
An excerpt from Corvus Rising… Jade’s face broke into a smile. “It’s Queen of the Night, Willow B!” she cried. She set the painting on the arms of the chair above the cat and stood back, savoring the...
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The Judas Crow
The newspaper article below inspired my new short story, The Judas Crow. It’s a rather ghastly account of humans using an animal for sport killing of its own kind. I imagined what might be like to be...
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Excerpt from Corvus Rising: The Great Corvid Council
Imagine we perch in the trees above a group of crows and ravens engaged in a heated discussion. ‘It’s the Great Corvid Council!” I might say to you. “Look!” you might say, “there’s a human, too!” A...
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In wilderness, we find ourselves…
An excerpt from Corvus Rising… Alfredo picked up his mic, leaving his partially eaten lunch on the table. “Why do we need wilderness at all?” he said to the crowd. “I would like to answer that with a...
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First Crow, First Raven, First Human…the Way it Might’ve Been
I’m a big fan of crows. Ravens too. I’m not alone. Googling ‘crow’ gets 113,000,000 hits; ‘raven’ gets 116,000,000. By comparison, ‘eagle’ gets 382,000,000; ‘sparrow’ 52,900,000. Crows poll somewhere...
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Let Them Eat Corn
The following tale is the fourth in the series of tongue-in-beak stories I made up concerning the ancient relationship our species has had with the corvids-a group of birds whose most familiar...
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The Law is an Ass
A look into some of the many faces of ‘the’ Law… Man’s Law That’s the kind of law which governs the Affordable Care Act, paying taxes, stopping at red lights, having to wait until you’re 21 to drink...
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Book Covers by Mary C Simmons
Words of Art The art on the cover attracts me to a book in the first place. In the absence of eye candy, I am drawn to catchy titles—kind of like at the horse races. I cruise the racing form for the...
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Angry Crows…
Respecting the Earth and All Its Inhabitants (Book Excerpt) Excerpt from Corvus Rising, by author, geologist and artist Mary Simmons Looking at something from a different angle often paints a more...
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The Ants Go Marching…and marching…and marching
…until death do they part. Us and Them Ever since I wrote Corvus Rising, I’ve considered in great depth and detail how the other living beings on Earth are more like us than not. We humans are fond of...
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Corvus Rising
Corvus Rising is a fantasy tale told in part from the point of view of crows, about an extraordinary yet nearly extinct group of humans who speak their language. Together, humans, crows, ravens, and a...
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