Leveraging Context and Setting

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Hi Friends:

Because the function of writer’s block is to subtly suggest a need to enhance your writing space, this issue includes:

A sip…

Although logic dictates otherwise, the muse contends that Love and Murder are two polarizing opposites…

A shout out…

Athletic, bright, charming, demure, handsome, introspective, the product of an entrepreneurial, two-parent household and well-mannered are qualities sought in a significant other. Save for his extensive criminal history and heroin addiction, author Donald Goines possessed all.

A non-combat Korean War veteran who managed to enlist with a 9th-grade education and a falsified birth certificate, he was introduced to and developed his predilection for illicit living while enlisted in the US Air Force.

A systematic student of the craft of writing, active during the period when publishing contracts paid by the book plus royalties, he was rumored to work a strict heroin-fueled writing timetable and authored sixteen no…