
Cary Tennis: Stories, Poems, Works in Progress
From the fertile mind and rich voice of "Since You Asked" writer Cary Tennis comes fiction, memoir, poetry and song. ------"The Traveler, or, Meditations of a Company Man" illuminates the inner life of an assassin trained as a child in the art of murder and employed by a shadowy company whose national allegiances are forever cloaked in mystery. ------"The Stones of Le Santucce" tells the true tale of two beautiful Italian twin sisters whose trip by train from Orvieto to Milan in 1952 starts a cascade of events that transform a family, a town and a medieval convent. A memoir of fate, coincidence and snap decisions that shape people's lives for generations. ------"Famous Actress Disappears," a novel about a teenage runaway who becomes America's biggest sitcom star until, trapped by the machine of Hollywood money and power, she must once again rebel to find her authentic self.
Episodes
15 episodes
*Focus,* man. *Focus*!
My problem is, I lack focus. Like way back in high school too. Drifting mind, can’t sit still, rather smoke pot in the parking lot, six of us in a VW bug in the ridiculous Fort Lauderdale sun, sure beats Jane Austin I thought, I just c...
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9:09

Vaccination Italian Style: "I'm the doctor who saved your husband's life!"
When Norma came out she said, "Guess who gave me the vaccine?""Who?" I said. "The mayor?""No," she said."A guy in a gorilla suit?""No," she said."Then who? Who gave you the vaccine?""The man who gave me my vaccine was th...
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19:31

Leaving San Francisco
"Leaving San Francisco" is a chapter in a longer book I've been working on for far too long called "The Stones of Le Santucce," about how a trip by train from Orvieto to Milan in 1952 starts a cascade of events that transform a family, a town a...
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7:12

The Traveler: An Encounter with Taxidermists and their Antlers, on the Landing of the Stairs
The Traveler, or, Meditations of a Company Man, illuminates the inner life of an assassin trained as a child in the art of murder and employed by a shadowy company whose national allegiances are forever cloaked in mystery. The short pieces that...
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8:07

The Traveler: A Sudden Memory of Terror
The Traveler, or, Meditations of a Company Man, illuminates the inner life of an assassin trained as a child in the art of murder and employed by a shadowy company whose national allegiances are forever cloaked in mystery. The short pieces that...
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3:14

The Traveler: Falling in Love
The Traveler, or, Meditations of a Company Man, illuminates the inner life of an assassin trained as a child in the art of murder and employed by a shadowy company whose national allegiances are forever cloaked in mystery. The short pieces that...
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6:02

The Traveler: A Walk Along the Shore Becomes Dangerous
The Traveler, or, Meditations of a Company Man, illuminates the inner life of an assassin trained as a child in the art of murder and employed by a shadowy company whose national allegiances are forever cloaked in mystery. The short pieces that...
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8:50

The Traveler: A Practical Man
The Traveler, or, Meditations of a Company Man, illuminates the inner life of an assassin trained as a child in the art of murder and employed by a shadowy company whose national allegiances are forever cloaked in mystery. The short pieces that...
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2:46

The Traveler: The Hand of God
The Traveler, or, Meditations of a Company Man, illuminates the inner life of an assassin trained as a child in the art of murder and employed by a shadowy company whose national allegiances are forever cloaked in mystery. The short pieces that...
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4:43

The Traveler: A Love Poem
The room of my dry hiding away has a window onto snow, the man who I am looks out on it from a chair by a table, He feels lucky like he won at blackjack but he hears a warning The messenger’s knock, the hotel worker, ...
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3:07

The Traveler: We went up high in the mountains, where it was quiet
We went up high in the mountains where it was quiet. There was an unused cabin up there, off the grid, not on Google maps, strategically hidden from the satellite scans, with no cellular footprint, having been lead-shielded from the start, no p...
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4:44

The Traveler: You Are Being Watched
There is a sign in the mess hall that says, “You are being watched.” We laugh about it because we have never known anything else, not since we were babies left alone perhaps for a few hours. I have glimpses now and then of that early me, the on...
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The Traveler: A Curious Feeling of Transcendence
Every once in a while a curious feeling would come over me, while walking in the woods that bordered the inn, or sitting in my room doing paperwork. People don’t realize how much paperwork is involved in a job like this. They think it’s all sho...
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