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The Weekly Readlines August 25
The Weekly Readlines (rhymes with headlines!) is a feature at LGBTSr providing news you can use every Friday.
In Memoriam: Laura Ann Carleton, murdered for being a friend of the LGBTQ community. Her killer was a Christian extremist, no surprise there.
Republicans had their first debate in Milwaukee, without Trump. Be very afraid.
Students say bans on LGBTQ topics and discussions are pointless: they were never taught in class anyway.
And the ‘war on woke’ is flopping as a fire starter for the GOP. Most Republicans are over it, if they ever cared in the first place, which is unlikely.
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The Twist Podcast #237: Married 10 Years, COVID Double Whammy, and An Interview with Keto Baker Rebecca Hall
Join co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose as we congratulate Mark and Frank on 10 years of marriage, hear how awful a second bout of Covid can be, and enjoy an interview with Keto Baker Rebecca Hall.
Enjoy The Twist on Libsyn, iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, and TheTwistPodcast.com.
Copyright 2023 MadeMark Publishing
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3 Chapter Audio Sample of ‘Dead Eyes: A Harry Hell Novella’
You can now listen to a 3 chapter audiobook sample of Dead Eyes: A Harry Hell Novella (exclusively on Kindle Vella). Fasten your headphones!
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New Video Promo for Dead Eyes: A Harry Hell Novella
Chapter 3 goes up this weekend. I’ll be offering an audio sample of the first three chapters as well. Be sure to ‘like’ the chapters after you’ve read them! Harry’s a badass. Here’s the Amazon link:
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The Twist Podcast #236: Arkansas Takes the Low Road, Silver Singles in Their Golden Years, and an Interview with Dr. Desi Williams
Join co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose as we call out Arkansas’ Advanced Placement pileon, consider the trend of silver singles in their golden years, and enjoy Rick’s interview with Dr. Desi Williiams.
Enjoy The Twist on Libsyn, iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, and TheTwistPodcast.com.
Copyright 2023 MadeMark Publishing
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The Weekly Readlines August 11
Quote for the Week: “I come from regular stock, and I prefer that — I prefer being around that.” – Clarence Thomas, in a documentary financed by one of his billionaire benefactors
BIG CUP: THE WEEK’S TOP STORIES
Maui has been devastated by wildfires, claiming at least 55 lives and destroying the historic town of Lahaina, once the seat of the Hawaiian kingdom.
Special Counsel Jack Smith has requested January 2 as the start date for Trump’s trial, possibly hoping to make him a convicted felon in time for Super Tuesday.
And The Band’s Robbie Robertson died at 80, having given us the most most famous and unfortunately enduring Confederate apologia ever recorded, The Night they Drove Old Dixie Down. If only it had stayed there.
LGBTQ NEWS
Milan To Resume Registering Children From Male Couples
ReutersDr. Fauci To Be Succeeded By First Openly LGBTQ Director Of NIAID
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‘Dead Eyes: A Harry Hell Novella’ Now a Kindle Vella Exclusive!
Harry Hell has lived in my head for several years now, and he’s finally found a way out! Intended as a three-book series, the Harry Hell Novellas have begun as a Kindle Vella serial, with a new chapter coming out every Sunday. The first three chapters of every Vella story are free to read, then subsequent chapters are accessed with token you can purchase for the stories. CLICK ON OVER and read the first, intense beginning of Dead Eyes: A Harry Hell Novella.
About Dead Eyes:
The year is sometime in the distant future. Planet Earth remains inhabitable, but only by those on the extremes: the wealthy, in their fenced-in fortresses, and everyone else killing or being killed to survive another day. Harry Hell strides atop the have-nots, having once been an elite assassin for Control, the ultimate authority that maintains what’s left of order. He chose the harder life after his partner and lover Raul was murdered by the villainess Nectar. Since then he has lived for one reason only: to take revenge. He is determined to watch her eyes go cold as she exhales one last time and dies by his hand.
Meet Harry Hell, Crater, Echo, Nectar, the Witch Woman, and many others as they prowl the Ruins, travel in and out of the Slopes, and watch from afar as the distant, gleaming Eastward reminds them of everything they’ve lost. As much a love story as a tale of revenge, Dead Eyes begins a journey of one man, with one mission, who is prepared to destroy it all to get what he wants.
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New Website Header
New era, new drive. This is the image I’ve used for all the new Kyle Callahan Mysteries covers. Truth in advertising: I write mysteries, thrillers, horror … and so much more.
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The Twist Podcast #235: Defendant In Chief, Good Times in Bidentown, and the 10 Best Barbie Launches Ever
Join co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose as we consider the possibility of an incarcerated President, praise the Bidenomics boom, and list the 10 best Barbie doll launches ever.
Enjoy The Twist on Libsyn, iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, and TheTwistPodcast.com.
Copyright 2023 MadeMark Publishing
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The Weekly Readlines August 4
On a personal note: The Readlines is moving to Friday mornings, as I change my production schedule. Other new content from LGBTSr.com will go out on Mondays. – Mark
Quote for the week: “The attack on our nation’s Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was an unprecedented assault on the seat of American democracy. As described in the indictment, it was fueled by lies. Lies by the defendant targeted at obstructing a bedrock function of the U.S. government: the nation’s process of collecting, counting and certifying the results of the presidential election.” – Special Counsel Jack Smith
BIG CUP: THE WEEK’S TOP STORIES
Former President Donald Trump was indicted (again). The charges are extremely serious, involving his efforts to overturn the election he lost, and may result in America having its first incarcerated Commander in Chief.
Actor Paul Reubens, aka Peewee Herman, died at 70. While it was sad, it was another one of those ‘He was 70?!’ moments I experience these days when people who are essentially my peers are exiting Planet Earth.
LGBTQ NEWS
Anti-LGBTQ Bills Drive Top Louisiana Kids’ Heart Doctor Out Of State
Shreveport TimesChicago LGBT Hall of Fame to announces 2023 inductees
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Hot August Giveaway: All 6 Kyle Callahan Mysteries Free for 6 Days!
Get all 6 of my Kyle Callahan Mysteries FREE on Kindle from August 1 – 5. CLICK HERE to see all my books. New covers, new regular price, new adventures await for Kyle and the gang.
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Mark McNease On Topic: Cowgirls and Alpha Gomers
Enjoy my weekly Substack, Mark McNease On Topic. Subscribe HERE.
Slavery as a career path
Among the most appalling things I’ve heard in 65 years was the recent “curriculum” in Florida that requires history teachers include in their discussions of slavery that some slaves learned useful skills (like how to cut themselves down from a tree?). When I was in the 6th grade, attending a private school, we had to read books every summer. One of them was called ‘To Be a Slave,’ consisting entirely of the lives of slaves described by the slaves themselves. This book would surely be banned today in many states. Slavery was ugly, brutal, vicious, murderous, and demonic (defended with biblical scripture, as we can expect). The images included in the book were searing: men and women with deep scars on their backs from being whipped. Perhaps it taught them the skill of endurance? Embroidery? Surely they learned something they could parlay into a small business after emancipation.
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My Interview on Daniela Acitelli’s YouTube Vlogcast