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Scott Holleran

California

Writer at Freelance

Writer at Autonomia

Author, journalist, writer. Subscribe to my fiction and non-fiction articles and podcasts: https://t.co/H2A8I2uAhw

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  • 1 week ago | scottholleran.substack.com | Scott Holleran

    The Amateur starring Rami Malek entertains. Watch for characterization and theme, not plot. As a mystery or thriller, the two-hour movie is good. But it’s Malek’s lead character, who goes rogue with reason after his wife’s murdered in a murky act of terrorism, that absorbs attention.

  • 2 weeks ago | shortstoriesbyscottholleran.substack.com | Scott Holleran

    I’m pleased to announce the debut of my newest short story, “Allegheny Lane.”This is the third in my winter trilogy introducing fiction for the first time in Classic Chicago magazine. It’s an unequivocally short story—around a thousand words—about a boy walking his dog in his neighborhood one season. The theme is trust. Like the previous two stories in the series, the character at stake is the boy. Loosely, the other trilogy stories have bodies of water in common with this tale.

  • 1 month ago | scottholleran.substack.com | Scott Holleran

    The article’s title reflects today’s choice in medicine. Though ObamaCare and self-care are not perfect terms, they both denote facts and concepts mixed and smashed into a single makeshift term. The origins of the word care are particularly relevant—the word care was fitted with a facade in the mid-Sixties at the start of America’s steep drop downward—commencing with the government’s ghoulish redistribution scheme dubbed Medicare, which slowly cripples the young to proliferate the old.

  • 1 month ago | scottholleran.substack.com | Scott Holleran

    Losing your highest values depletes, tests and tries the soul, The Penguin Lessons dramatizes with humor, charm and a little bird. This poignant movie about the role of a bird in one man’s life begins with a drop of paint, jettisoned by his shudder from a bomb explosion during arrival to teach boys at an academy in a South American dictatorship in 1976. Steve Coogan (Philomena) portrays the English teacher. Jonathan Pryce, warning Coogan’s instructor to be politically correct, plays the principal.

  • 1 month ago | scottholleran.substack.com | Scott Holleran

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22 Apr 25

RT @KatiePavlich: It’s Earth Day. Never forget the co-founder of this day, environmental activist Ira Einhorn, killed and then composted hi…

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22 Apr 25

RT @jk_rowling: Imagine being such a coward you can only muster the courage to tell the truth once the Supreme Court has ruled on what the…

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22 Apr 25

RT @Autonomia2021: The first reporter to meet and interview Elian Gonzalez at his Miami home—days before Janet Reno obeyed President Clinto…