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The Owl – a short story by Michael Fine
By Michael Fine © Michael Fine 2021 A man got up. “See-ya Thursday,” he mumbled, his eyes half closed from a night of drinking, his speech slurred. He stumbled, almost knocking over his chair. and staggered out the door. There was a blast of cold wind. An old man was left alone in the tavern,…
Read MoreWhere are we now: Omicron & Irrational Hope – Michael Fine
By Michael Fine, contributing writer, RINewsToday Where We Are Now: January 9 -14, 2022. Omicron and Irrational Hope. © Michael Fine 2022 Okay, Dr. Fine, I imagine some of you are saying. January 7th came and went. You said we’d see 12,000 new cases in Rhode Island in a single day by then. And here we are, with no…
Read MoreWhat’s Coming at Us: What We Must Remember – Michael Fine
By Michael Fine © Michael Fine 2021 Take-home points Covid-19 made our polarization worse. Government prioritized commerce over protecting the lives of Americans. That new priority puts us on a slippery slope towards political violence What each of us says and does matters. You couldn’t help but notice the split between Americans worsen during the…
Read MoreWhat’s coming at us: 3,000 new cases a day. What do we do now? – Dr. Michael Fine
By Michael Fine © Michael Fine 2022 Ok. More than 3000 tested positive cases on December 30, 2021. I just saw that the positivity rate of testing at one New York Hospital is fifty percent. Which is no surprise. With a doubling rate of three days, we likely have 6000 test positive cases by yesterday,…
Read MoreBridge Freezes Before Road Surface – a short story by Michael Fine
by Michael Fine, contributing writer © Michael Fine 2021 This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales, and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental. It was a goddamn…
Read MoreWhat’s coming at us: More Division? Or more Democracy? Not time to say “Uncle” yet – Michael Fine
By Michael Fine © Michael Fine 2021 Take-home points I have a recurring nightmare. I fear that on or about January 15, when the Omicron variant has us on our knees, Russia will invade the Ukraine, and the loss of the Ukraine will create political instability here. There is plenty of evidence that Russia is…
Read MoreDr. Michael Fine – No, we’re not back to normal. Vaccines, boosters, masking, distancing, holidays, events…
Few Rhode Islanders understand that while the vaccines do a great job preventing hospitalization and death in people under 80, they do not prevent infection and are not very effective at preventing hospitalization and death in people over 80, and those with chronic disease. We think boosters help, but we’re not yet sure just…
Read MoreHome Sweet Home – a short story by Michael Fine
By Michael Fine © Michael Fine 2021 This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales, and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental. _____ There was nobody Glenn Shandy…
Read More“The Bull and Other Stories” by Michael Fine wins 2021 IPNE Book Award for Literary Fiction
by Nancy Thomas, publisher Contributing writer to RINewsToday, Michael Fine, has won the 2021 IPNE Book Award for Literary Fiction for his book, The Bull and Other Stories. RINewsToday congratulates Fine for this honor. “Most of the stories in the book have been published as part of Dr. Fine’s monthly short story feature with us,…
Read MoreThe Bull and Other Stories – by Dr. Michael Fine, IPNE Literary Book of the Year finalist
The Bull and Other Stories, a book by Dr. Michael Fine, has been chosen as a finalist for the 2021 IPNE Literary Book of the Year. Fine publishes an original short story monthly in RINewsToday, with approximately 30 such stories – all of which can be found on Fine’s author page https://rinewstoday.com/short-stories-by-michael-fine/. The Independent Publishers…
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