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With Howard Fielding | Celebrating Our Common Life, Liberty, and Happiness

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Howard Fielding's "Living Here" column ran for 25 years in The Sunday Republican of Waterbury, Connecticut. Now retired, he's still living here, online. Join him to enjoy sunsets, short uplifting essays, works in progress, special surprises, and the occasional trip down Memory Lane.

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Tag: FICTION

The Super-Smart Streaming Smartscreen

Reading Time: 4 minutes – FICTION – Streaming media and artificial intelligence enter the lives of the family that grew up — and apart — on television. Now what?

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The Wild, Wired Cable TV

Reading Time: 3 minutes – FICTION – The Wild, Wired Cable TV continues her brother and sister’s quest to make America happy again. But instead people are drifting apart.

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The Happy Little Color TV

Reading Time: 2 minutes – FICTION – For a while, Brother, Sister, Mother and Father were happy, too. They saw a wonderful world of color, parades and cartoons, football and baseball, hillbillies and Gilligans.

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The Brave Little Television

Reading Time: 3 minutes – FICTION – The little television could see how the black-and-white, us-and-them world was making her family sad and angry, but what could she do?

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‘Welcome to Betelgeuse’ part 5

Reading Time: 3 minutes – FICTION – Morrow crouched alongside the stretcher as the ambulance attendants splinted the woman’s leg. Still unconscious, she inhaled sharply in pain as they lifted her into the back of the ambulance.

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‘Welcome to Betelgeuse’ part 4

Reading Time: 2 minutes – FICTION – She bumped over an overgrown rail line, barely maintaining control of her scooter as its front tire got caught in the recesses of the crossing and started to follow the tracks, as if with a will of its own.

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‘Welcome to Betelgeuse’ part 3

Reading Time: 2 minutes – FICTION – Something had happened, to her, anyway, but she was putting that behind her. Or was it still in front? With no landmarks, a useless map, not even the moon to orient her, she could be going in circles.

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‘Welcome to Betelgeuse’ part 2

Reading Time: 2 minutes – FICTION – Could she be lost? Could she have turned west, toward God-knows-where, or even north toward Warrensburg?

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‘Welcome to Betelgeuse’ part 1

Reading Time: 2 minutes – FICTION – Eyes were watching her from the black woods of late October in the Adirondacks.

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Off to NaNoWriMo

Reading Time: 2 minutes – ON WRITING -I’m going to jump into National Novel Writing Month, aka NaNoWriMo, again this November.

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