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Jess Candle
Jan 115 min read
THE OVERSEER (FICTION)
{ Editor's Note: This short fiction appeared in print and online in Edition #12 of The Los Angeles Review of Los Angeles , in 2017 } {...
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Jess Candle
Dec 21, 202449 min read
SEVEN CHRISTMASES (examining the Christmas stories we tell)(PERSONAL ESSAY)
I want to use the analogy of Christmas to look at how we tell other stories about our families, our children, about life and death
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Jess Candle
Dec 13, 20247 min read
LAST WINTER (SHORT FICTION)
Last winter, a week before Christmas, they asked some parents to go down and clean the elementary school after the big shooting you ...
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Jess Candle
Dec 11, 20244 min read
TOP 10 OR 11 LAW BOOKS OR ESSAYS FOUND DURING MOVE FROM WHOLLY INADEQUATE OLD LAW BUILDING (THAT NOW HOUSES LIKE TWELVE COLLEGES) TO NEW FANCY HIRAM CHODOSH TRIBUTE LAW SCHOOL BUILDING (HUMOR)
In September of 2016, the University of Utah celebrated the opening of a new law school education building
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Jess Candle
Dec 6, 20248 min read
A BRIEF REPORT OF A BRIEF VISIT (SHORT FICTION)
Fictional report explores what earth will look like to future life forms that discover earth
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Jess Candle
Nov 13, 202410 min read
THE FUTURE OF BASEBALL (SHORT HUMOR)
The Future of Baseball Is A Sad Game of Strike Outs, Walks, Homers, and Computer Simulation
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Jess Candle
Sep 1, 202431 min read
BEST 100 BOOKS OF ALL TIME (OPINION, LITERARY CRITICISM, LIST)
Here are the Best 100 Books of All Time.
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Jess Candle
Jul 16, 202454 min read
DEMON COPPERHEAD NOVEL REVIEW (CONTINUED)(CHAPTER FORTY-TWO TO END)(LITERARY CRITICISM)
Demon Copperhead Novel Review, Chapter Forty-Two to End
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Jess Candle
Jun 27, 202411 min read
CALDERA or THE IMPRINT OF TRADITION (SHORT FICTION)
And in this case I want to tell you about how that tradition held my family together one terrible summer for my sister which I see now clear
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Jess Candle
Jun 25, 202418 min read
THE DRUMBEAT (SHORT FICTION)
The erection of the “large, triangular apparatus” was first noted in the Western Cities Observer on May 11, 2021, when an eight-year-old...
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Jess Candle
May 4, 202496 min read
DEMON COPPERHEAD BOOK REVIEW (LITERARY CRITICISM)(Study Guide, Notes, Cheat Sheet, Outline, Characters, Plot, Summary, Cliffs Notes)
Suppose your book club picked the novel Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver, and you want to get ready for book club ...
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Fink Meyer
Nov 2, 20228 min read
CONSIDER ALL THE POSSIBILTIES (CREATIVE NON-FICTION)
It was unseasonably warm in Paiute that first weekend of November 1997 when I began hearing voices. Three weeks prior, I’d had my abdomen...
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Jon Tomerson
Mar 12, 202219 min read
UTOPOS (PERSONAL ESSAY ABOUT PUTTING MY MOM IN A NURSING HOME)
It was difficult to place my mother in a nursing home when she had dementia, and heartbreaking to watch her lose her capacity and die.
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Jess Candle
Jul 21, 20216 min read
LITTLE BUT IMPORTANT MEMORIES: RISTORANTE DELLA FONTANA TORN DOWN
an old Italian restaurant in Salt Lake City, is torn down. Man reflects on memories with his family there.
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Jess Candle
Apr 14, 20197 min read
IT'S NOT SO HARD TO DIE (SHORT FICTION)
Essay on how death occurs, simple natural process
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