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I purchased your book "The Defiant Light"on Amazon, Victor. It is a treasure chest of odd, dark stories and I definitely recommend it to your readers. I admit that the meaning of many of them was above my level of comprehension, but I especially reacted to "Terminal Los Angeles", "Silent Sons of Propaganda", "Beautiful Lopsided Eyes of Trigger Guards", "Slow Train" and many others. Thank you.

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Hi Sharron, I'm glad you enjoyed it, and thanks for your support. There's kind of a weird, wide range there, I suppose.

As for the meaning, it's for each person take to take on their own. There's no right or wrong answer :) If you found something relatable, that's the main thing. And if not, well, that happens, too. Thanks again!

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Una historia cruda para leer pero asimilable. Tus historias me provocan empatia y eso me encanta. Gracias!

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Gracias a ti, Mónica para leerlo. Me da gusto que puedo provocar; tu sabes que esto es mi intención. La próxima, menos fuerte, tal vez, o probable, pero quien sabe. Ni siquiera no sé que voy cenar en unas horas.

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"and the whole world lost an opportunity to see a nascent war and refuse to feed it with hard guns and the soft damaged hearts of broken boys."

So well said, Victor. As always.

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Thanks Jim. Appreciate your generous comment, friend, and glad you enjoyed it.

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What a searing insight into the personal and political damage that leads to war - mankind's most celebrated and degenerate events. This, for me, is your writing in its most powerful and unleashed form. Well done, Victor!

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Thanks Mike. I'm not sure what got into me at the time except to say that this is an amalgamation of my personal story and those of others I knew/know. Something swept over me at the time. At any rate, boring explanations aside, I'm glad you enjoyed it, and many thanks for your generous comment.

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" The soft damaged hearts of broken boys." Yes, Victor, and I see no remedy, do you? And it started here: "... tried to please a hard father man, a hard man hard inside like hard men are, dried, calcified, drained of love, critical, with serious judgments, grave to the grave, essential, decisive, flawed." And how did his father become THAT? This was a very difficult read for me, Victor -- as is most of your book. But I am reading it and learning something about the way men think. I was very touched by "Baz Tries Crime First Time".

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Thanks Sharron. I don't see a remedy exactly, but I think someday we'll transcend. An interesting observation for me in regard to your question "How did his father become that?" is that sometimes traits are passed from generation to the next, but sometimes a child rejects rather than adopts the traits, and change happens. If I were a Hari Seldon, maybe I could plot the timeline to when good outweighs bad, but all I can do it get a general sense of the oscillations involved.

Glad you liked Baz. I was standing in a line with my back hurting (like it wants to do), and I thought: shit, if some robber comes in and demands that everybody get down, I'm going to have to plead bad back excuse. :) Kind of whimsical.....I know....

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