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Suspenders Aren’t Necessarily Braces
We were staying on the Isle of Wight with my wife’s aunt. There was a scandal at the time which was on page one of the broadsheets, as well as the tabloids. The Chancellor of the Exchequer had been caught in flagranti having an extra-marital affair with a beauty who was outspoken.
She showed no remorse […]
Posted: May 1st, 2009 under Text, Dossier, Stories.
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A Family Way
Herbert Kuhner
Concerning getting to be in a family way, she had said, why bring one more unhappy person into the world? That was exactly my point of view. I had been pushed into the world. If I’d been asked, I certainly wouldn’t be in it.
She was indeed attractive, but her good looks were of the […]
Posted: April 23rd, 2009 under Text, Stories, Short Fiction.
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Short Pieces on Film
Herbert Kuhner
De box looks at vun fellow, and de box says
“Yes, dot vun is for me!”
It looks at annoder, and it says, “Nawww!”
- Akim Tamiroff, as related by Orson Wells
Larry, Marilyn, Vivien and Noblesse Oblige
He could speak Shakespeare’s lines as naturally as if he were actually thinking them.
- Charles Bennett, English playwright
Larry was the […]
Posted: April 3rd, 2009 under Materialien, Stories, Film.
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Writing and Translating in the Land of Hans Sachs
Herbert Kuhner
I started my writing career at the top of the world. After, walking into I walked into Macmillan on Lower Fifth Avenue in 1960, I left with two feathers in my cap: a volume of poetry accepted for publication and an option for a novel. Lady Luck gave me a storybook beginning. Alas, she […]
Posted: March 4th, 2009 under Polemics, Aktuell, Political, Stories.
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Bashing Bush
Herbert Kuhner
My very best friend has a picture of George and Laura in his office. I let him know that as long as that photo remained in that place of honor, I’d have one of that charming couple Adolf and Eva H. in my bedroom.
Okay put Adolf down, but lay off Eva! Wasn’t her love […]
Posted: November 23rd, 2008 under Polemics, Text, Aktuell, Stories.
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Barack Obama
Our next president didn’t start off rich, but he rose to the top. He set an example for us, and he’s going to go on to do great things. We’re grateful to Barack Obama for showing us the way.
Old Man in a Bus
In 1960, while I was in Richmond, Virginia, I gave an elderly black […]
Posted: November 8th, 2008 under Aktuell, Stories.
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A Short Life
Herbert Kuhner
The life of a handsome little boy was snuffed out. He left this earth at the age of 17 months before Christmas of 2007.
His mother’s boyfriend had severely beaten him and sexually abused him.
The mother brought the injured boy to a hospital, where his physical injuries were cared for. Then the authorities returned him […]
Posted: September 29th, 2008 under Text, Aktuell, Stories.
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