Kendall Defoe
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Teacher, reader, writer, dreamer... I am a college instructor who cannot stop letting his thoughts end up on the page. No AI. No Fake Work. It's all me...
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John and Nora
I am sitting here on a lonely Friday writing about the passing of Nora Forster, the wife of John Lydon (aka Johnny Rotten). She succumbed to Alzheimer's at the age of eighty after at least five years of suffering with the disease while her husband took care of her.
By Kendall Defoe 3 years ago in Beat
Another Day on the Job
Note: I wrote this for another page, with some slight changes, and it did not really get enough traction. The prompt was to write a story about someone missing out on a major event. I would just like to see if anyone is entertained enough by this one to comment or critique it.
By Kendall Defoe 3 years ago in Fiction
Safety Instructions. Top Story - April 2023.
Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to Flight 999 on Egress Airlines, flying from Montreal to Vancouver. Our altitude will soon reach 50,000 feet (don’t ask us to go metric on that one, ha ha), and we will arrive at our destination late in the evening of Friday the 13th. Many of you with a superstitious nature might find that an uncomfortable fact, but please appreciate that we are pilots and handle this sort of thing all the time. No worries!
By Kendall Defoe 3 years ago in Fiction
Damages
The mirror showed a reflection that wasn’t my own. Thank Christ! Seriously, there were many days when I would wake up in the morning and wonder, why did I get stuck with this ugly mug? I know that life is not fair and all that, but you’d think there’d be at least a little balance. But I woke up that morning, washed my face with too-cold water, and looked up.
By Kendall Defoe 3 years ago in Fiction
A Gen-Xer Speaks about Music. Top Story - March 2023.
It started in a hallway. I was teaching a session one semester at a college. My students, when not passively absorbed by their cellphones and laptops, tried to be studious. One student in particular was often picking my brain about assignments and material that needed to be completed for the course. He was a young man running his own business, and happily continuing his education both in class and outside of those bare walls.
By Kendall Defoe 3 years ago in Beat
