After working at Broadway for eight years, I’ll be moving on to new pastures, beginning the first of many horse puns I’m intending to make. I’m going to be working as development coordinator for a great organization called Acres of Hope Youth Ranch, which provides mentorship for teens experiencing hardship through riding horses and otherContinue reading “Reflections from an Eight Year Barista”
Author Archives: Ben Nanke
The Mother Of Invention
Chapter 2 “It was about this time that the telephone rang in the secret briefcase // Belonging to the one mortal man // Who might be able to stop all of this senseless destruction and save ‘America Herself’!” Billy the Mountain, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention The elevator in their concrete office buildingContinue reading “The Mother Of Invention”
Don’t Be Fuelish
Chapter 1 “It was then I knew I’d had enough, burned my credit card for fuel // Headed out to where the pavement turns to sand // With a one-way ticket to the land of truth and my suitcase in my hand // How I lost my friends I still don’t understand.” Neil Young, ThrashersContinue reading “Don’t Be Fuelish”
"The Dean's Hunt"
A Story of the “Passeneden Series” An Anthology of Short Stories from Another World’s Holy Land by Benjamin Nanke Into the Dean’s office came the University’s oldest professor, that ancient, wise alien from beyond the Staunchwood and, as requested, he had brought the spider with him. The Dean sat behind his desk. In his mid-forties,Continue reading “"The Dean's Hunt"”
“The Angel That Fell On Cloudland”
A Story of the “Passeneden Series” A Series of Short Stories from another world’s Holy Land “The Angel That Fell On Cloudland” by Benjamin Nanke Henny Weinbaum was standing on the curtain wall of Weisswarden, looking out over the bright tropical blue and white archipelago, when a flaming angel from the heavens struck the bigContinue reading ““The Angel That Fell On Cloudland””
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