| "Fun throughout." Larry Keenan, Artist/Photographer |
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| Time Adjusters and Other Stories |
I had finally landed an office job in the Mail Room of American Wage Insurance Company, after several years of manual labor jobs in warehouses and loading docks. I remember feeling awkward at first wearing a dress-shirt and a tie and slacks, and the preppie people of my own age or younger seemed to be in on some knowledge to which I was a stranger. Like I wasn’t sophisticated. There were two views of the Underwriting Light Bending Technology. Of course, they were the liberal and conservative viewpoints. The liberal vice-presidential candidate had written a book about saving Mother Earth in which he said, “The current use of Light Bending future-form capturing (sic) is placing an unfair disadvantage on the poor by targeting future disaster areas and denying coverage. Then there are the unknown effects on the environment and the actual bending of time itself.” The conservatives called that the crackpot theory and said, no, it’s not really reflections of the future, but simply predictors, like seismographs for earthquakes. The public drove to work each day listening to these debates on the radio as if it didn’t mean a hill of beans. From Time Adjusters |
| “Dear Bill, I just read Cut-Up (The Stolen Scroll). You are so good. I loved it, a perfect little tidbit.”
Patricia Elliott Marvin, Beat Memorabilia |
| "Ambitiously postmodern . . . Ectric's stories often contain hidden nuggets of menace, though they are always told with a smile. Cut-up (the Stolen Scroll) is a Lynchian saga about a stolen Kerouac manuscript and a secret message that turns dangerous when subjected to Burroughs-style poetic cut-ups. Ectric seems like too nice a guy to be evoking William S. Burroughs (as he does frequently in this book), and in fact it is this discrepancy that provides his unique identity as a writer."
Levi Asher, Literary Kicks |
| "Bill Ectric demonstrates a familiarity with various literary concepts, without ever boring the reader with his knowledge. For example, in Miss Glenly's Dreadful Room, he makes reference to the "deconstruction" method of writer/philosopher Jacques Derrida, but he doesn't dwell on it; rather, he uses it in a story about a haunted house with books flying off shelves . . . but I don't want to say too much." April Kittinger |
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| "PROPERTY/CASUALTY INSURANCE IN 2008:
OVERPRICED INSURANCE AND UNDERPAID CLAIMS
RESULT IN UNJUSTIFIED PROFITS, PADDED RESERVES, AND EXCESSIVE CAPITALIZATION
" January 10, 2008 J. Robert Hunter Director of Insurance for the Consumer Federation of America Formerly, Federal Insurance Administrator under Presidents Ford and Carter |
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| “A wild memory-frag sci-fi adventure...some of my favorite lines in the story from an early flashback (referring metaphorically to some baseball cards), 'Sometimes I find them old and faded; other times they are slick and new. You can almost smell the bubblegum. But sometimes I look into the drawer and they are not there at all.' Thanks, Bill." Mike O'Connor, Writer/Columnist |
| The wheels are turning now. Wires crackle. The field's in harvest.
The 1980s were a strange time for me. Every American can read about good health in the grocery store check-out line. As much as I wanted to accept the amenities People water plants for us. I want to play my Donald Fagan album on the intercom. and corporate trappings, I want coffee to taste as good as it smells. I couldn't shake the feeling I want to change channels in the break room with a remote control daiquiri. that something was wrong. |
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| by Bill Ectric |