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Stories in Readable Format

I have finally been able to convert my stories into into PDF files which makes them easily readable on iPads and other hand held devices.If you‘d like to have any or all of these stories emailed to you, just email me at onandup3@gmail.com and I will send them to youYou can find descriptions of each story here:

SMOKE
SIGNALS

Jim Murray's
Short Story Collection

Jim Murray's Story Inventory

The following are outlines of my finished stories, I have divided them into several different areas to keep them all organized. 1. NOVEL 2....

https://tinyurl.com/367zrxjt

MY STORY COLLECTION TO DATE

A Novel, Lilli’s Lost & Found
and 6 collections of short stories

Collection #1

1. The Virgin Detective Stories
2. The Aronson Case

3. The RedFred 22 Case

4. The Insider Trading Case

Collection # 2

1. Into The Heat

2. Ted's Millions

3. Blind Side Of The Heart

4 . Senor Mickey Farrell

5S. The Passion of Johnny Vallone

Collection # 3

1. The Locker Key

2. AKA Charlie McQueen
3. Juliet's Gift

4 . The Mikalov Case

Collection # 4

1. T h e Brothers Botticelli
2. A Little Ray Of Hope

3. The Amanda Project

4 . Hurricane Season

Collection # 5

1. Frankie Carlino's Legacy
2. The Human League

3. Maxwell's Silver Hammer
4. Deacon Loves Penny

Collection # 6

Fantasy Fiction

1. The Visitor

2 . A Shadow On The Sun
3. When I'm Sixty-Four

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1 day ago

I used to be a poet

TUSED TO BEA POET

Tused to be a poct
¢ back in the day
sleek

nery

Looking machinery
t manufactures words
At the speed of ligh
Was even dreamt of

Tused to be a poct
When words were measured
Carefully and thoughtfully
When love and passion

Tused to be a poct
‘When 1 could make
Subconscious thoughts
Churn and bubble
A witches cauldron
OF fear and anger
Of anxiety and longing
For everything from justice
02 good old fashioned fuck

Tused to be a poct
When everything was cool
And everyone could seck & find
‘The deeper meaning
When inflections were like chords
“That no onc had played before
And they were so rich
And strange and full of the unknown

Tused to be a poct
When my mind was free to wander
And 1 was always invited
“To tag along, taking notes
And shape them into
Little anthems to whatever
Was going on, going strong
Going right, going wrong
Going, going, gone

T used to be poct
But nowadays
I have to reach way back
“To find those things
“That came so casily
‘Those thoughts that would drift
On the tide of all that 1
Was 50 connected to
When I used to be a post

LEE

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1 day ago

I Wanna Know Where Love Is

I Wanna Know Where Love Is

Every morning I cruise around the Internet and all I see are stories about hate and war and clashes of ideologies. I hear tragic stories of innocent people caught in the middle of these warring factions. And the saddest part of this all is that there doesn't seem to be any end in sight. It all seems so wrong that only one of the millions of different species on this planet is bent on its own destruction. We learn nothing from our own history. We can't seem to get through life without an enemy. We cannot love our fellow man, and more and more these days, we don't even try. Listen to this song. Feel the plea. All we need is to stop hating and realize we are all in this together. Because we are all just one thing. We are all just human beings.

Foreigner - I Want To Know What Love Is (Official Music Video)

You're watching the official music video for Foreigner - "I Want to Know What Love Is" from the album 'Agent Provocateur' (1984). "I Want to Know What Love I...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3Pr1_v7hsw

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2 days ago

The Next Heatwave

THE NEXT HEATWAVE

‘The world is breaking into pieces
Parts on the left...parts on the right
You gotta work hard to make sure
You're not stuck in the middle late at night
Because the sun is moving closer
And the moon is far from where it belongs
And you better have you act together
Before the next heatwave comes along

‘The priests are doing land office business
Reclaiming lost souls by the ton
But just be careful what they tell you
‘Cause they're only looking out for number one
And the nights that used to be so sweet
Are smelling more like something's wrong
You better have your road kit packed up tight
Before the next heatwave comes along

You can stay drunk or you can stay high
‘There ain't much difference anymore
An altered view of reality is all
‘That will save your sanity for sure
Because the temperature is rising
And the world will be owned
By the lucky and the strong
You better find yourself a hole to hide in
When the next heatwave comes along

You say it’s only summertime
And you've been through this all before
But now you're looking out your window
And for a second there, you're not really sure
‘Cause the wind is blowing harder
And the crackle of the burning forests
Feels so wrong
And there won't be any place to run to
When the next heatwave comes along

COPYRIGHT 2023, JIM MURRAY MURMARKETING

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4 days ago

A Sure Sign Of Spring

Went outside this morning to do my walking and noticed that this was on my mailbox. These birds must have worked all night on this. Hope they got paid overtime. We think they're Robins. I carefully moved the nest to another location.

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5 days ago

More Bombs On Israel

THE SAME OLD FIRE

Holy bullets screaming

Splitting the reckless night
Fireflies of death and destruction
Moving at the speed of light

Drone launched explosions echo
Throught the eardrums of the deaf
Cheap thrill after cheap thrill
Until there ain't nothing left

And somebody's holy war
Got a little bit sicker

The toll of the innocent dead
Climbs a little bit higher
The mechanics of murder
Get a little bit slicker

But it's just another flicker
In the same old fire

Vultures fill the horizon

Bodies splayed out in the summer heat
In the Land of Milk and Honey
Something seems so incomplete

But life has always been cheap here
And martyrs few and far between
Nothing surprises us any more

It's like we're livin' in a fifth-rate dream

And somebody's fantasy world

Got a lot more real real tonight

And for too long now the lines are blurred
Between the wrong and the right

And the mechanics of murder

Just keep on getting slicker

But it's always just another flicker

In the same old fire

COPYRIGHT 2023, JIM MURRAY MURMARKETING

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1 week ago

TV Commercials

I hate TV commercials. I only watch
Jeopardy on network TV and tape all the
shows so I can fast forward through all
the dopey commercials.

But now they're showing commercials on
the streaming sites and you can’t fast
forward through them.

And I wouldn't mind all this because I at
least understand corporate greed.

But what I do mind is that almost every
commercial I am forced to watch there is a
mediocre pieces of show and tell crap. No
personality, no intrigue, no nothing

The people who are doing advertising
these days are cluless twits who believe
they are only talking to other cluless twits.

And round and round it goes, in a circle
of low rent communication.

And the clients pay through the nose for
all this crap, because, guess what, they're
all cluless too.

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1 week ago

Just a thought

Funny how all his acolytes
call this a witch hunt
and yet they're angry
when the witch is
actually put on trial.

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1 week ago

What I'm Thinking Today

GAZA

I open my window
See the shape of things
Misery laughs
And hatred sings
And I wonder at how
We've come so far
To get nowehere

I see fools on fire
With the rage of greed
I see millions starve
I see children bleed
And I ask myself
Is this what God
Really wanted?

I hear politicians scream
As they steal from the weak
‘The lost souls trudge
Down hollowed out streets
Praying hard
For the end of days
Just around the corner

Because you know
‘They want it all
Every single soul

No matter how small

‘Their only desire

Is to make you crawl
Begging for their mercy

Look around
It’s not hard to see
What a dreadful price
We pay to be free
And how much longer
Is it gonna be
Before it’s us they're after?

COPYRIGHT 2023, JIM MURRAY MURMARKETING

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2 weeks ago

A Work of Art

A WORK OF ART

‘The life you live
Is a work of art
Every day you paint
Just another part

Sometimes they can be
Winter glum
Other times they're bright
As the summer sun

And all the colours
‘That we see
Are the rainbows
‘That make you and me

And with each new day
Come sunshine or storm
Another new page
In your book is born

And we all paint together
And this painting we do
Is the world we make
Some for me, some for you

So take your brushes
And paint away
A new portrait of you
With each new day

For this life we live
Is a work of art
Every day we paint
Just another part

COPYRIGHT 2023, JIM MURRAY

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2 weeks ago

Just You & Your Enemy

JUST YOU AND YOUR ENEMY

I sce the world around me
Drowning in a flood of hate
The souls of the innocents fly by me
And the violence does not abate.

We have spent at least 2000 years
Making war on cach other, and for what?
For land and gold and power
And just look at what we have wrought

A world where happiness is a myth
Where human suffering and pain abound
We are no longer content to build
But just to burn it all to the ground

We make temples to a god on high
That no one has ever scen
We commit atrocities in his name
Chasing the afterlife dream

And all the while we make our lives
So much harder than they need to be
There is no peace, there is no love
There is just you and your enemy

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2 weeks ago

Poem de Jour

INTRUDERS

We worship idols
Of silver and gold
We measure our worth
By the slaves we own

We learn to hate
All the things we should love
We revere the vulture

And we kill the dove

We build great machines
That spew poison here and there
We create wonderous lies
And dead bodies everywhere

And we do all of this
Without regret or fear
For we are nothing more
Than Intruders here

But the carth has a soul
And the carth feels the pain
And slowly but surely
It’s correcting again

Because up against nature
We are frail and we're small
Our arrogance will turn us
Into nothing at all

And until we finally learn
To end the greed and the fear
We'll continue to be just
Intruders here

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Dirty Hymns

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2 weeks ago

Couch Potato Chronicles: Slow Horses

SLOW HORSES

(3 Spuds on Apple TV) : 5 |
Having found Paramout a | L SLOW
disappointment content " HORSES
wise, we have moved on to
Apple TV+ and first up is

Slow Horses, a great British spy series starring Gary
Oldman as a custy cold war vet M-5 station chief whose
station is where people are sent to do penance for
screwing up somehow. Kinda like a spook purgatory.

Oldman’s character spcializes in doing nothing until
he finds that he is being set up for a fall by his boss. I
won't go into any details, of course, because that would
spoil things.

This series is dark and menacing and extremely
clever like most British spy stuff usually is. Mr Oldman
is perfect as the wizened old veteran who has seen it all
a few times and still has tricks up his sleeve.

I've always been a big fan of Brit spy stuff. I think
they do it so well because England is such a magnet for
badasses from all over the place.

I also saw a couple of other series that looked kinda
interesting, including Ted Lasso, but a month of Apple
TV is money well spent even is it’s just to watch the
great Gary Oldman do his thing.

THE COUCH POTATO
CHRONICLES 2024

NO SPUD 4U - SUCKS
1 SPUD - NOTHING SPECIAL
2 SPUDS - WORTH READING
3 SPUDS - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Copyright 2024 MurMarketing, Jim Murray

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2 weeks ago

Free Stories

MY STORY COLLECTION TO DATE:

Here’s a link to my current library of original short stories and novellas, all proofed (as well as I can) and updated. These stories are, with a few exceptions, written to be hybrid short stories and screen treatments, so they read fairly quickly. But the stories themselves are all complete and the characters are all well defined. Hope you enjoy them.

SMOKE
SIGNALS

Jim Murray's
Short Story Collection

Jim Murray's Story Inventory

The following are outlines of my finished stories, I have divided them into several different areas to keep them all organized. 1. STANDALO...

https://jimmurraysstories.blogspot.com/2024/01/jim-murrays-story-inventory.html

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3 weeks ago

Poem for a Thursday

ONE FUCKING WAR AT ATIME

So many wars out there raging
So many victims it feels like a crime
Wouldn't it be great if we could
Just get it down to
One fucking war at a time

‘There's a war on drugs going nowhere
A war on terror that nobody can win
A war on the poor being waged by the rich
A war on the fat being waged by the thin

‘There's a war between Christians and Muslims
A war between the left and the right
A war between Main Street and Wall Street
War raging all day and all night

‘There's a war between haters and lovers
A war between the young and the old
‘There are wars that serve just one purpose
In the market where guns are bought and sold

‘There's a new war starting tomorrow
Bringing with it a new set of fears
And try as may, you will never put an end to
‘The war exploding between your ears

So many wars out there raging
So many victims it feels like a crime
Wouldn't it be great if we could
Just get it down to
One fucking war at a time

COPYRIGHT 2023, JIM MURRAY MURMARKETING

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3 weeks ago

Hold On To Me

HOLD ONTO ME

Hold on to me
With all your might
I will be your strength
Twill be your light
Shinin’ like a beacon
Through the darkest night
So hold on to me
With all your might

Hold on to me
In the moonlight glow
We will fly together
Through the great unknown
Our love will bind us
Through the highs and lows
So hold onto me
In the moonlight glow

Hold on to me
Come take my hand
And we will live together
In the Promised Land
Twill never let you down
I will always be your man
Hold on to me
Come take my hand

Hold on to me
And never let go
TI will be your anchor
When the hurricanes blow
So much chaos around us
That we will never know
If you hold on to me
And never let go

COPYRIGHT 2023, JIM MURRAY MURMARKETING

Hold ON To Me

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3 weeks ago

Couuch Potato Chronicles review

3 BODY PROBLEM

(1 Spud on Netflix)
This was promoted as the
next big thing (on Netflix)
from the creators of Game
of Thrones and all that
other good hype.

But for all the effects
and the end of days story
line, it really comes across
as some kind of object
lesson, supposedly for all of us, that the earth is
so fucked that the only thing that will save it is
an invasion from another species that will
essentially eradicate the pestilence, aka human
beings, and start all over again.

So the real question is, do you like watching
stuff that has some effects that are quite
spectacular while telling you a story that’s
despressing as shit or not.

Judging from its popularity with the masses
on Netflix, this is OK with them. I watched six
and a half of the eight episodes in this series
and decided that I no longer wanted to be
depressed to that degree by, of all things, a
fucking TV series.

THE COUCH POTATO
CHRONICLES 2024

NO SPUD 4U - SUCKS
1 SPUD - NOTHING SPECIAL
2 SPUDS - WORTH READING
3 SPUDS - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Copyright 2024 MurMarketing, Jim Murray

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3 weeks ago

Monday Poem

MY OWN RESURRECTION

My depth of vision deepens
As the earth light fades to black
I'm flying with a one-way monkey
Strapped tightly to my back

He's whispering terrors in my ear
Trying to induce a heart attack
Slowly he twists the screws of fate
And my mind stretches on the rack

I float through an endless current
Of pale, gelatinous blue
‘The history of the universe unfolds
But there's nothing for me to do

I feel so safe and self-contained
Devoid of any point of view
No feeling for the eternal lies

Or whatever's temporarily true

lam finally free of my body
1 am finally acutely aware
Of just how light the soul can be
When the carcass is no longer there

I have no eyes but see clearly now
‘Through the neon and the freon glare
I have no ears but the singularity
Of all sounds is vibrating there

And I seem to sense a strange new wave
Of inanimate perfection
As if my body was taken away
Solely for my own protection

As if it would somehow damage my soul
Making it useless to divine inspection
But it's all past me now as I revel in
‘The pure joy of my own resurrection

COPYRIGHT 2023, JIM MURRAY MURMARKETING

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3 weeks ago

Day of Reckoning for American Democracy

Today is the day when America
gets to prove that there really
is one law for everyone.

If Trump cannot cough up

five hundred + million,
and nothing happens to him,
the world will know
that America is just
as corrupt as anywhere else.

MURSTUFF

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4 weeks ago

Have a chuckle.

Lavrov stranded in Rio.

Russia's Foreigh Minister Sergey Lavrov visited the G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro
today. From there, he was planning to fly to Brasilia to meet with Brazilian
President Lula da Silva. But... Lavrov's plane was low on fuel and Brazilian
operators in Rio refused to provide refueling services to a Russian aircraft.

Lavrov was offered a passenger seat on Brazilian Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira's
plane back to Brazilia and it looks like a different Russian aircraft will be flown in
to get him out...

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