Russell Twyce

Let Dead Authors Die

2009-06-13T00:10:00.000-07:00

Robert Ludlum was one of my favorite authors and JRR Tolkien was another. I liked the Dune series by Frank Herbert too. Beside the fact that they wrote fiction, these three great authors have another commonality – They are now dead! Such is life—it ends one day. The number of stories that these authors shared with us is finite. But wait! Such isn’t the case! Death can’t be the end for greedy publishers and agents. They want to keep the deceased author’s corpse chained to the keyboard.

In Frank Herbert and JRR Tolkien’s cases, this is understandable and acceptable because the two authors left reams of research notes and their sons have written from these treasure troves. I actually like Brian Herbert’s new series based on his dad’s Dune world. Christopher Tolkien’s stuff leaves me flat, but that’s my personal opinion. Robert Ludlum’s remains though, must be rolling over and grinding teeth. His craft is being bastardized and his legacy is shamefully besmirched!

I’ve read a novel by Eric Van Lustbader and it didn’t inspire me to buy any more of his. Again, that’s my personal opinion but whereas previously I found him to be just a mediocre author, now I think he is scum. He couldn’t develop a fan following on his own merits, so he is coat tailing on a good author’s name. He writes ‘as’ Robert Ludlum. Shame! Shame! Shame! Eric Van Lust-for-cash has sucked onto a money teat offered by his agent and/or publisher and it’s at Robert Ludlum’s expense.

Eric Van Shame-bader isn’t the only sleazy author cashing in on Ludlum’s valuable name. The ‘Covert-One’ series is supposedly ‘co-written’ by Ludlum with several other authors. But since Robert died in 2001 and the first of these were published in 2000 (with another due out in 2009), I strongly suspect that Ludlum didn’t ‘co-author’ a single word of any of these. The one I read was, in my opinion, crap and not worthy of Robert Ludlum’s name!

Is this open greed-in-publishing the literary trend that you want to see continued? Which good author is next for a reputation chopping block? “William Shakespeare writes his first new play since 1616 – as co-authored by Joe Cash-whore.”

What can you do if you agree with me? I suggest telling publishers of posthumous books that they are lower-than-dirt and doing so in the way it hurts them worst – by not buying that book or any other published by that disreputable house. I would go a step further and when you see one of these shameful knockoffs done in a deceased author’s name, you might turn it on the shelf to face away, as if in embarrassment. Maybe the bookstores will spot the trend and stop stocking these mockeries. When the market dies out, so might the practice of dragging a dead author’s bones through the mud for more money.

A old man's search for stories

2009-06-09T16:22:00.000-07:00

An old man bustles about a shabby old room. ‘I’m on a search for stories.’ The man reminded himself: he had a tendency to forget things. He lifted up a few prize items he had set on tables, shelves and the mantle piece: they left rings, ovals, squares and rectangles of polished surface amid the skim of dust. This reminded him to put the items back exactly where they had come from.

‘I’m searching for stories’, he checked behind a table strewn with badly out-of date periodicals, ‘and it doesn’t matter whether they are truth or fiction’. He stopped his search for stories and stroked his whisker bristled face in thought.

‘Where did I last put my story file?’ He opened a squeaking closet door: he needed to take care as the overstuffed and under-organized contents could spill out. One very large file case was marked with ‘how to make the world better’ and another was labeled ‘novel starts’. ‘Ah, I think my search for stories is getting warmer.’

‘Stories, stories, stories,” while rummaging, he softly sung to himself, ‘searching for stories.’ The vocalizing kept the memory of what he was doing from slipping away.

‘Here is the pot-of-gold at under my search for stories rainbow.’ He extracted a very large scrapbook from beneath a shelf containing his old scuba gear. ‘Now is this truth or fiction’? He blew a cloud of dust from the memento book’s hard cover.

‘Perfect.’ He tucked the volume under his arm.

“Grampa!” A young boy shouted. “Do you have another story yet?”

“Of course I do.” He chuckled. “But at my age, a search for stories takes awhile.”

“I thought you’d gone to sleep with your eyes open.”

Law is a Lion

2009-06-08T01:43:00.000-07:00

Law is a lion - A fiction short by Russell Twyce

A psychopath had positioned himself at booth selling briefcases. He had bought a few dozen cases and then had a couple of posters made up, that suggested he was as a legal needs marketer. Using a fictional company name and the logo ‘Law is a lion’, the killer had rented a space at a lawyer’s seminar. Along with cases and brochures, he had smuggled in some weaponry.
When the show was at it’s busiest time, on Saturday afternoon, the psychopath put a placard on his ‘Law is a lion’ table reading ‘out conducting business’. Then he took out his guns and mingled with the conference attendees. And fifty-three people died in one of the worst mass murders in history. After expending all his ammunition, he set his small arsenal aside and sat patiently waiting for the police to arrive.
“Law is a lion.” He said to the first policeman. “These lawyers heard the lion roar.”
The swat team responded with a Miranda warning, while roughly cuffing him.

How to make the world better – A 1st step is REPAIRING the global Economy! � Russell Twyce - Truth or Fiction

2009-05-30T21:49:00.000-07:00

How to make the world better – A 1st step is REPAIRING the global Economy! � Russell Twyce - Truth or Fiction

‘A political campaign in fiction or truth’ – a very short truth or fiction story.

2009-05-28T23:23:00.000-07:00

I love the following really, really short story.

A Political Campaign of Truth over Fiction – 353 word truth or fiction short story by Russell Twyce

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I hope you like this tongue-in-cheek fiction too. Pleae let me know.

Russell Twyce in 2009

2009-05-23T21:35:00.000-07:00

I still believe the rule of law is a crime against humanity and that we should get rid of it - BUT - I've also moved on somewhat too. I've just written a new novella named 'I Live In My Scuba Gear'. This story is about an Olympic Class Swimmer that had emerged from a history of family violence. The first chapter is found at - I live in my scuba gear -ch 1 and the the first part of the second chapter is here - I live in my scuba gear - ch 2

Solving Flaws AND Keeping True Order

2008-03-05T15:53:00.000-08:00

Remedy for Flaw # 1 – Remove prohibitions from actions and place society’s response onto the effects of actions instead—by installing ‘protections’. EI. The act of murder no longer is illegal, BUT society will put a murderer in protective custody to protect other potential victims. This is to the same general effect as ‘punishing’ for ‘the crime of murder’, but it is based on justice ACTUALLY protecting people.

Remedy for Flaw # 2 – Law has no right to rule, but each person does have the right of self-defense. When each citizen lends this right to the government, then justice DOES have the right to protect the people.

Remedy for Flaw # 3 – Protective justice would do what even Lincoln didn’t accomplish in freeing all slaves. Eliminating law would finally end feudal serfdom.

Remedy for Flaw # 4 – Law requires universal acceptance to survive. All people have to think that law applies to them. What will happen when there are more people (like me) who say “Law exists only in your mind: it does not have power in mine.” To make laws apply to us (me), you have to break my human right of having my own beliefs. (Note—I don’t consider myself ‘above the law’: law doesn’t exist in any space respective to me.)

Remedy for Flaw # 5 – Protective justice eliminates the necessity for an imaginary being (a law). Instead, the police/courts are dealing with what actually happened to the victim. (Fuller Explanation—Visualize the law of ‘assault’ as a cocoon of saran wrap around your body. If I poke you in the eye, the law sees me as bending the plastic into your eye and it charges me with damage I did to the bubble. How did your eye get hurt? Did my finger push the other side of the law into it? Doesn’t that mean the law assaulted you.)

Remedy for Flaw # 6 – Protective justice removes the target. Flaw # 6 is probably the biggest reason why I call law a ‘crime against humanity’. Every time a Columbine or Virginia Tech happens, when a malcontent commits a politically motivated vandalism, and each crime that any person commits just to spite authority, the rule-of-law has been directly responsible for the wrong happening to an innocent person. Law is heinous!

Fatal Errors in Law’s Theory

2008-03-05T15:04:00.001-08:00

(Note…I’m not talking about all forms of law. I’m only referring to personal freedom limiting laws, like criminal codes and highway traffic acts.)

Flaw # 1 – Law does NOT protect people. You might think it does, but its method is self-serving. Law ONLY protects it’s own sanctity.

Flaw # 2 – The rule-of-law has no logical right to rule. An individual has no right to set rules or another’s behavior, or to mete out punishments. A nation derives it’s rights of governance from the combined donations of it’s citizens, but a zero right to rule even multiplied by millions is still none. The resulting problem is that people feel resentment towards the non-condonable slavery of the law and many do commit crimes simply as statements of freedom. The solution is to apply society’s reaction to wrongs onto the effect and not the action. A person does have the right of self-defense and the nation would similarly have the indisputable right to support that with ‘protections’. (No, law does NOT protect people: law’s object is only protecting its own sanctity.)

Flaw # 3 - No matter how you try to downplay this repugnant fact, LAW IS SLAVERY (and everyone hates it for that).

Flaw # 4 – A law asks to be treated as if it exists but it really doesn’t. A law is only a concept residing in a duped mind, because (see Flaw # 2 – Law has no right to rule.)

Flaw # 5 – The theory of law creates an imaginary barrier around each person and it assigns acts as having occurred only to that illusionary object. IE. A person was stabbed but the court is only concerned with what happened to the intangible law as the knife passed through the law. The resulting problems from this are many but the worst is that it provides a handy method of circumventing the conscience. IE. “I’m stabbing this person, but my action only hurting the inanimate and unfeeling law.”

Flaw # 6 – Law paints targets on innocent victims. Since laws are made and owned by the authority, malcontents with enmity against ‘the man’ are able to make an attack or statement against the state. IE. The victims of Virginia Tech were killed simply for the killer to make his anti-society statement. Without a law of murder to break, the murders wouldn’t have occurred.

Fictional Experts

2008-03-04T16:44:00.000-08:00

Today in a discussion forum, my views were countered with the following rebuttals. “Haven’t you read ‘The Lord of the Flies’?” and “You should read ‘Crime and Punishment’.” Cool! Those are both works of FICTION! William Golding and Fyodor Dostoevsky have become the unquestionable experts on the subject matter of their imaginative stories?

The rule of law has no right to rule

2008-03-03T13:57:00.001-08:00

You as an individual, have zero right to tell me what I may or may not do, or to punish me for non-compliance. A nation is made up of X millions of individuals who grant their combined power to a government---BUT---X,000,000 times nothing is just a bigger zero! A nation still DOESN’T HAVE ANY right to pass slave laws that apply against a human’s basic right of freedom.

Crime against Humanity

2008-03-03T13:48:00.000-08:00

I accuse the rule-of-law of being the worst crime against humanity. Law and law enforcement forcibly strips us of our god-granted freedom and it delivers only crime in return. Some might erroneously think that ‘the law protects us’, but it doesn’t: law only seeks to preserve it’s own sanctity. Instead of protection, the law paints a crime target on people and grants the criminal a way to sidestep his conscience.

Solitary journey to enlightenment

2008-03-02T16:29:00.000-08:00

Prior to my drowning, I knew nothing but I presumed that I did. In other words, I was just like many or most people today. I felt the political and judicial systems were utterly screwed, but I didn’t understand why and I thought that it had to be this way. Now I see that it doesn’t!

September 4, 2004 – While SCUBA diving near Vancouver, I suffered an equipment failure and drowned. My eight-minute post-death experience was profound, vivid and life changing. Retrospectively, I suppose that the key element of my experience was in learning how the soul’s (or the id’s) perspective differs from the conscious mind.

I’m tempted to relate the full account of my epiphany, but that will be best told in my fictional novels.