Delicious Death

Schurr Shot photo, summer in Santa Rosa

Fascinating words, rhymes and stories, sweet angle of death, send my soul away, far from this world of lunatic lust, bills, poisonous power and dominant wealth.

Tangible infinite supplies of books filling my mind with wonder and delicious discoveries, always reading and joyful. Weaved into the seeds of time fearing nothing.   Mark Schurr 

Transparent Reaper

Schurr Shot picture of the sun using pop color mode

Transparent reaper gathers souls, sends some to scream in the pits of eternal dismay and torture. Disembodied others are sent to an infinite oasis of love and laughter, complete with purity and positive passion. Angels of death summon deeds of despair and ones of sheer delight.

I once meet eye to eye with a doctor of death, for reasons unknown to myself, I'm still entrap on Earth. All I remember about the reaper was the vividly intriguing question marks centered in the black of its eyes.  Mark Schurr

Sex Crimes

The arena's of atrocity are filled with celebrity and political predators. Deviant and criminal sexuality reign amidst popularity and power. The symbolic white pillars of pillage reside in the ruins of ancient Greece and Rome. These pillars also represent corruption and chaos in the White House. Pedophiles and rapist run rampant amidst the senate. Dead actions of justice and peace showcase the piousness powers of politics.
                                                                                             Mark Schurr

Fear & Hope

Transparent reaper stared into my eyes, he looked neither menacing nor comforting and his cloak had a huge question mark on it. We were standing on a mountain top, and the reaper pointed down to the residue of a blood laden teen aged battle field. All the grass and dirt was riddled with the color red. Exploded blood and guts hung off the bushes and tree branches. Dismembered survivors of some political war where screaming in agony which was piercing to the ears.

The Reaper then pointed me in the opposite direction where soldiers were laughing in lush green grass, and multicolored foliage that was highlighted by clear watered streams and magnificent water falls. Instead of shooting at each other, soldiers on both sides used their weapons to shoot empty cans and bottles of various beverages. No one was dead or wounded, and laughter echoed in the valleys of Valhalla.
                                                                                      Mark Schurr

"Gwendy's Button Box," A Novella Geared Simply for Teenagers Or Much More?

"Gwendy's Button Box," written by Stephen King and his friend Richard Chizmar is definitely written for the teen aged reader, yet possesses enough flair for all ages, or does it?

Make no mistake, Stephen King is one of my favorite writers, yet his best years of intensely  gripping novels have passed.

Originally released on hardback in May, then re released on paperback on Oct.,31, "Gwendy's Button Box" is a quick afternoon read at a mere 170 pages of large print.   

King's bouquet of blood still exists in this book and it touches on the harsh norms of adolescence bullying. This book is also tuned in to the realms of what goes on in the hearts and minds of young girls in elementary school and all the way through high school. 

Although written this year, "Gwendy's Button Box" begins in 1974 and focuses on the main character, 12-year-old Gwendy Peterson who receives the Button Box from Richard Farris whose in his 30s. Is Richard a creepy adult man preying on an uncertain 12-year-girl or is he the devil recruiting young mortals to persuade others into consuming the desserts of the devil itself?

Farris gives Gwendy the stylishly looking mahogany box with several colored buttons on it. The box produces chocolate that makes it easy to control your weight and enhance your mind. The box also begets 1891 silver dollars that are worth $800.0 each. Each colored button represent various countries such as Asia, Australia, Africa, Europe and other countries.

The box has fantastic powers that can be used for evil or good. By the time Gwendy goes to high school she has at least a hundred silver dollars stashed away, and the box makes her life much better.

She's in love and is loved back by photog Harry Streeter, she's the fastest person in the county running track, she gets straight A's in school with little studying and her alcoholic parents stop drinking and the three become a happy family again, but what is the price of possessing such a powerful box?

At 16-years-old, Gwendy is a beautiful young women. An intense moment seized my senses as I was reading the part when she was alone on her bicycle and two creepy high-school guys from her school encounter her in her short cut-offs and a tank top. Frankie Stone and his equally demented pal Jimmy Shines are eager to rape her. This gripping part in the book involves a flick-knife which is not Gwendy's. Want to know what happens next? Read the book.

Keith Minnion, artist 

Destined for doom and destruction or live a long life loving and being loved? Suicide and murder happens in the town of Castle Rock, but who are the victims? I say again, read the book if you want to know.

The buttons on the box  work for both peace and hate. When Frankie Stone gets a hold of the box...

"Gwendy's Button Box" is a four-star read, it's both gripping and entertaining for both the young and the old, and yes, King's phrase, 'A bouquet of blood' is a cool word combination to me.   

Cosmic Stability, A Journey

 

The Hindu Goddess Earth, picture from the book "Hindu Goddesses" by David Kinsley. 

Muted minds laugh in the void. Thoughts of folly and sage go unrendered. Lone roamers hike the hills abundant with spirits thirsty for blood and the deities hungry for harmony. Thus far during the ventures, neither death nor glorious peace has occurred. The quest for purpose and pleasure fuels the fire for even more questions.

Izzy Schurr, aka, Mark Schurr

Write Handed VII

Whispered beauty echos in the serene chambers of happiness. Dreams combat realities frustrations and fuel empty sensations. Hollow hearts beat on creativity and imagination.

Draw, paint, photograph, cook, create, train, teach, write and wonder amidst the marbled halls of healthy habits. Halos of hobbies may be our salvation.         

Izzy Schurr, aka, Mark Schurr