Author Archives: Phyllis Alberici

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About Phyllis Alberici

Hanging a few lanterns in the darkness. Let me know how it's going.

Pandemonium Swamp

Posted on September 22, 2016 by Phyllis Alberici

Prologue  For a year now I haven’t told anyone what I saw out there, except Fay. Fay is my editor and she was there for the end of it. Nothing that happened out there was rational. Nothing made sense. But … Continue reading →

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Headlines from The West Burville Gazette: Merry Christmas Edition

Posted on December 23, 2014 by Phyllis Alberici

A Message from The Editor: The first snowfall (the one before the snow gets up to your keister and the car won’t start) kicks off the preparations for the holiday season in Piney Woods County, stuck way up here in … Continue reading →

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Weather Report from Never Never Land: the Election

Posted on October 23, 2012 by Phyllis Alberici

The last of the Presidential debates for this election go around is tonight and Americans will have to decide between Monday night football or a different kind of football. Back in Lincoln’s day, a Presidential debate had no moderator and … Continue reading →

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Headlines from the West Burville Gazette: It’s gonna be a hot one, folks! Part 2

Posted on August 19, 2012 by Phyllis Alberici

When we snuck away from Sheriff Les Good a week or so ago, he was popping Tums and speculating on why Hooter and the other Counter Dwellers were slinking around. It just might be time for some surveillance… Hooter and Bunchy were … Continue reading →

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A small praise of Great White Sharks

Posted on August 8, 2012 by Phyllis Alberici

What’s grey and white and has 300 teeth? It takes a lot to get me past first gear. Sharks do it. They do it for most people. They stir up some primordial stew in our subconscious. Take the young blonde … Continue reading →

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Headlines from The West Burville Gazette: it’s gonna be a hot one, folks!

Posted on August 4, 2012 by Phyllis Alberici

August is a strange month in northeastern Vermont, one day it’s on the sunnyside of 90 and the next you’re pulling out the turtlenecks. If you happen to be in West Burville you might consider a slice of Linda Mae’s … Continue reading →

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Off to see the wizard

Posted on August 2, 2012 by Phyllis Alberici

When you can’t drink anything after midnight and you don’t get liquids until around 5 the next afternoon, you develop a very small agenda: go to hospital, get fixed, drink something. You might also bargain with yourself to do bad … Continue reading →

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The transcendental heart

Posted on July 30, 2012 by Phyllis Alberici

If you read Indie Albany on a regular basis you might have noticed that I’m something of the black sheep of the family. First, I write then I just stop. I’m like the “off” ox on the team. It’s not a … Continue reading →

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A week of Sundays

Posted on June 24, 2012 by Phyllis Alberici

My grandmother, a rather short ornery woman from a town that’s long been underwater in central Vermont, used to remind us that her “get up and go got up and went” whenever a spate of hard work needed to get … Continue reading →

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D Day

Posted on June 6, 2012 by Phyllis Alberici

As you get older recent memory becomes as elusive as sleep and old memories, or the borrowed memories of others, become new again. Remembering D Day on this June 6. I write a lot about soldiers and veterans and war. … Continue reading →

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I 90 and the Time Machine

Posted on May 10, 2012 by Phyllis Alberici

In a little over three weeks I’ve been to Cuba, Salamanca, Napoli, Antwerp, Blenheim, Dunkirk, and Yorkshire. And I never left New York. Were you expecting something else? It would have been great (and a fib) to tell you I’d … Continue reading →

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The Constant Pie or How I Escaped Reform School

Posted on April 2, 2012 by Phyllis Alberici

It might be a good idea to explain this early on.  Someplace in the jungle of my early childhood there was really only one civilizing factor that saved me from reform school. It wasn’t the swat off the back of … Continue reading →

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Headlines from the West Burville Gazette/Under New Ownership/2

Posted on February 20, 2012 by Phyllis Alberici

Life’s a funny thing. One day you’re running an auto repair shop up in West Burville and the next you’re part owner of the town diner, the Double Axle. If Linda Mae had any idea the stir she would cause, … Continue reading →

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Red

Posted on February 14, 2012 by Phyllis Alberici

If Valentine’s Day, like it’s cousin, Christmas, has strayed from its roots we only have the greeting card and candy companies to blame for amping up the love machine in the middle of a dreary month. Right? Maybe. Whatever the … Continue reading →

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Headlines from The West Burville Gazette: Under New Ownership

Posted on February 6, 2012 by Phyllis Alberici

The year past was a busy one for the Counter Dwellers over at the Double Axle Diner, West Burville, Vermont, what with being involved in a murder mystery, getting arrested for some foolishness during deer season, and winding up the … Continue reading →

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