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Best Forgotten

By Doug Muder For many years I have been afflicted by dreams. The one this afternoon was just one more in the sequence. I’m sure it means nothing. I have never understood why they come to me, these strange dreams that leave me disturbed and wondering about my life and the world. I am not […]

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Novel in Progress: 10 A. S., Ten Years After Superman

It started one day when I was arguing with the ghost of Joseph Campbell. He was claiming that modern culture had lost the ability to create new collective mythologies, and that the only significant modern mythology was in the individual works of authors like Joyce and Mann. I countered that there was plenty of new […]

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Lucy Stone and Henry Blackwell

In honor of Valentine’s Day, Doug Muder told this love story to the children at First Parish in Bedford, Mass. on February 15, 2009. You can read the rest of the church service (which was more about death than about love).

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Carol at Christmas

A story by Doug Muder, December 2005

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Fiction and Poetry by Doug Muder

Novel Preview 10 A. S., Ten Years After Superman (1999-???). A novel in progress. It’s been nearly ten years since Superman vanished into the Sun, where he presumably died. Who is the natural person to write the ten-year retrospective? Clark Kent, obviously. Short Stories Carol at Christmas (2005). The fourth Mike DeSalvo story. Mike waits […]

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The Judgment of Paris

Adapted by Doug Muder, used in the service “Is There a Western Path to Enlightenment?“