Raymond L. Atkins

Raymond L. Atkins’s fourth novel, Sweetwater Blues, has just been released by Mercer University Press. Get your copy now!

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Sick enough to consider driving to Walgreen in my pajamas for Vicks and Robitussin, but not sick enough to actually go through with it.

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161 tweets yesterday. A presidential record, I'm told...

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"Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.” Carl Sagan

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If on the day after I shuffle off this mortal coil I find myself wandering around the main branch of the Rome Post Office, I will know that I should have lived a better life...

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It always does... https://t.co/jXibcLziot

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Been binge-watching The Wire and am now having a hard time not talking street, yo

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It's not that I don't like collards. It's that I like everything else more.

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New Years Eve and not a single resolution to my name. Does anyone know ANYTHING I could improve on?

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Well, these home videos won't digitize themselves...

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You can call it Underwood Deviled Ham if you want to, but in reality it is Georgia pa-tay...

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Trying to think of something good to say about The Witcher...

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My three-word movie review for Ad Astra: what the hell?

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I found out recently that not only can one overuse a staple gun, but that one can also be judged and found wanting when one does...

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Just finished binge-watching The Expanse and am now considering enlisting in our new Space Force.

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As it turns out, Hampton Bay's "Universal Light Kit" for ceiling fans is not as universal as one might have hoped...

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Remember that time you were at a job interview and the HR person pulled out your Permanent Record?

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With the general acceptance of "they" as a singular pronoun, the slide into anarchy is now complete...

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Time for me to come clean. I always thought Nirvana (the band) was way overrated...

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Reflecting back upon my primary education, I'm not sure which topic was more essential to my success in life: state capitals or Roman numerals. Either way, Mrs. Williams pounded those suckers in...

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Toilets and lightbulbs. Thank goodness we're finally back on track.