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Mark McNease’s Fearsome Fiction Podcast: Night Flight to Murder Town – A Marshall James Thriller (Chapters 31 – 33)
Night Flight to Murder Town — Chapters 31, 32 & 33
Marshall is in full survival mode. With a murdered man and a ransacked apartment behind him, he recruits his unlikely new ally Colin for a reconnaissance mission to Trent Stoffer’s Upper East Side building. What they find — or rather, don’t find — turns everything upside down. The apartment is spotless, the bedroom pristine, and Trent, according to a very helpful man named Dennis, is alive and well in Hong Kong. The body is gone, the evidence is gone, and Marshall is left looking like a man who has lost his grip on reality.
Meanwhile, in a complete change of pace, Marshall and Boo enjoy a sun-drenched afternoon in New Hope, Pennsylvania — ice cream, Main Street, and the Bucks County Playhouse — before Boo reveals the dark history of Passion House, the B&B where they’re staying. A housekeeper. A famous writer. A canal. And a locked storage room upstairs that no one talks about.
Back in 1992 New York, the mystery deepens. Dennis’s too-smooth performance and the suspiciously immaculate crime scene tell Marshall exactly one thing: everyone is in on it. The doorman, the super, and whoever cleaned up that bedroom with professional efficiency. The only lead left is a computer disk Trent slipped him — and finding a computer to read it on.
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LGBT Senior’s News on the Positive Side with Cora Berke: Harvey Milk Day
Cora Berke News on the Positive Side- by Cora Berke
Harvey Milk Day“Hope will never be silent.”- Harvey Milk
In 1977, 47-year-old Harvey Milk was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. He was the first openly gay person to win a public election in the State of California.
Born and raised in New York, Milk moved to the Castro neighborhood in San Francisco with his partner in 1972. The neighborhood was one of the first recognized gay neighborhoods in the country at that time.
Together with his partner Scott Smith, Milk opened a camera store which served as a gathering for his activism in gay rights. Before winning the election in 1977, he campaigned for equal LGBTQ+ rights in jobs, housing and healthcare and became a known activist. After being sworn in as a member of the Board of Supervisors, Milk sponsored an ordinance to prevent discrimination in employment and housing for the community and voted against a proposition banning gay teachers in the public schools.
Tragically, his career ended only eleven months later, when he was assassinated in his office along with then San Francisco mayor, George Moscone. Milk had a premonition he would be killed one day and left a taped message saying, “If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door.”
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True Crime Tuesday – A Fearsome Fiction Feature: Kouri Richins and the Moscow Mule Murder
True Crime Tuesday – A Fearsome Fiction Feature: Kouri Richins and the Moscow Mule Murder
Narration provided by WondervoxShe killed her husband with a fentanyl-laced Moscow Mule — then wrote a children’s book about grief. On May 13, 2026, the same day that would have been Eric Richins’ 44th birthday, a Utah judge sentenced Kouri Richins to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
In this episode of True Crime Tuesdays, Mark McNease walks you through one of the most chilling cases in recent memory — a tale of debt, deception, a secret affair, and a calculated murder hiding in plain sight behind the cover of a children’s book. From the first failed attempt on Valentine’s Day to the fatal Moscow Mule, from the internet searches about lethal doses to the jury that deliberated less than three hours — this is a story that is almost too dark to be believed.
True Crime Tuesdays is a Fearsome Fiction feature. New episodes every Tuesday.
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LGBT Senior Featured Essay: Only Friends, by Rick Rose
Only Friends
By Rick RoseThere is a word I do not use.
Acquaintance. I have tried it on, the way you try on a coat that belongs to someone else. It never fits. The seams are wrong. The sleeves are too short. I set it down and walk away.
My coat is nothing like that one.
When you are a friend, you are a friend for life. That’s simply how it works.
I have been thinking lately about what friendship actually is. Not the greeting-card version. Not the social media version, where the word gets cheapened into a like, a follow, a digital wave across a crowded room. I mean the real thing. The kind that leaves a mark.
A patch.
Every person who has mattered to me has sewn one onto me. Some patches are worn soft now, faded and frayed by the circumstances and beauty of a relationship, the colors gentled by time. Some are so vivid and present I can feel them against my skin on any given day with any unplanned movement.
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LGBT Senior’s Around the House: Spring-erizing Your Home
Spring Has Sprung — And So Should You: A Home Checkup for the Season
I waited a long time for the cold weather to finally makes its way out, but now that spring is here there are lots of things to do to and around the house. There’s also the semi-annual ‘spring cleaning’ (I don’t do this just once a year – it’s not an apartment!). There are eaves to clean out, porches to sweep, vines to trim, and vegetables to plant. And weather you live in house, an apartment, or you’re sharing a living space with someone, there are always things to do when the temperatures rise. Let’s take a tour …
Spring is the perfect time to do a walkthrough of your home — inside and out — and take care of the small stuff before it becomes the expensive stuff. You don’t have to do it all in one weekend. Think of it as a stroll through your space with fresh eyes.
Start Outside
Winter is hard on a house. Walk the perimeter and look up. Check your gutters for debris — leaves, twigs, and whatever else settled in over the cold months. A clogged gutter can send water right where you don’t want it, against your foundation or into your walls. While you’re up there (or hiring someone who is), check that downspouts are directing water away from the house.
Look at your roof if you can safely do so from the ground. Missing or curled shingles after a rough winter are worth a call to a roofer before spring rains do their worst.
Check your driveway and walkways for cracks that freeze-thaw cycles may have widened. A tube of concrete caulk or crack filler is cheap. A tripping hazard is not.
Windows and Doors
Open every window. Yes, all of them. Check the seals, look for cracks in the frames, and make sure screens are intact. Replace any that aren’t — screens are your first defense against the insects that would very much like to join you for dinner this summer.
While you’re at it, check weatherstripping on exterior doors. If you can see daylight around the edges, your air conditioning will work harder than it needs to all summer long.
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LGBT Senior’s Remarkable Women, Untold Stories: Emily Warren Roebling’s Brooklyn Bridge
Welcome to LGBT Senior’s Remarkable Women, Untold Stories, a weekly feature bringing extraordinary women to the forefront.
Though her contributions went largely unrecognized for decades. Emily Warren Roebling played a central role in the Brooklyn Bridge’s construction.
Her father-in-law, John Roebling, designed the bridge, but he died in 1869 before construction began. Her husband, Washington Roebling, took over as chief engineer but became seriously ill from decompression sickness in 1872 and was largely bedridden for much of the project.
Emily stepped in as the primary liaison between Washington and the construction crews. She learned advanced mathematics, cable construction, and engineering principles, and effectively supervised day-to-day operations for over a decade. When the bridge opened in 1883, she was the first person to cross it — a deliberate honor recognizing her role.
So while John Roebling designed it and Washington Roebling was the engineer of record, Emily Warren Roebling was the person who made sure it actually got built.
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The Twist Podcast 328: Lincoln Memorial Kiddie Pool, Praise for Penzeys, and What Bugs Us This Week
On further reflection, this week Mark and Rick do cannonballs into Trump’s giant kiddie pool, sing the praises of Penzeys super-progressive spice empire, and sound off on what bugs us this week.
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LGBT Senior’s Tech Talk: Streaming TV Made Simple
Mark McNease/Editor
We cut the cord several years ago after holding onto cable out of a common fear that giving it up would bring calamity. But as the rates kept rising year after year, and we lost everything that had been recorded on the cable’s DVR when the box went bad, we said enough and made the switch to streaming.
We love it! Our main source is YouTubeTV, which has as many channels as cable did, and can record hundreds of hours of TV shows we don’t watch live. (Recording also means we can speed through any commercials.) And with streaming, it’s all connected to your account and not a cable box. Instead if having to pay extra for a second box in the bedroom, or even a third, all you need is a TV, WiFi, and an account with any of the streaming services.
Not only does this mean our TV essentially goes with us anywhere, and can be streamed on any device, it also means I can travel with my Amazon Fire stick, plug it into a hotel room’s TV, and see everything we’d see at home. On that note, too, I recently discovered Hampton Inns are now making streaming the default, either through in-house apps or with the ability to connect your own device. Smart move! Hotels don’t have to pay a cable fee for their room TVs now, they just need streaming apps. It’s about time!
So, if you’ve cut the cord on cable, or you’re thinking about it, welcome to the wonderful, sometimes bewildering world of streaming television. There’s never been more to watch. There’s also never been more ways to accidentally spend $80 a month on services you forgot you signed up for, so let’s fix that.
What Is Streaming, Exactly?
Streaming means watching TV shows, movies, and video content over the internet instead of through a cable or satellite provider. No dish, no cable box, no appointment window between noon and four. You watch what you want, when you want, on your TV, tablet, phone, or computer. The tradeoff is that instead of one big cable bill, you’re now managing several smaller subscriptions — and that’s where things can quietly get out of hand.
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New Workshop Scheduled: A Thematic Journaling Workshop for Gay Men 60+ (June 24)
A Thematic Journaling Workshop for Gay Men 60+
Here’s something people don’t often mention about getting older: the more life we’ve lived, the more interesting we become.
The places we’ve lived, the people we’ve loved, the versions of yourselves we’ve tried on and kept or discarded. It’s all there in the tapestry of our lives.
This journaling workshop is a place for rediscovery through journaling. No experience required, no literary ambitions necessary. Just a willingness to follow some simple good prompt, and see what comes out when we explore ourselves.
We’ll write together, share if we feel like it, and leave with more pages than we arrived with.
What to expect: A warm, low-pressure Zoom session with short writing exercises, optional sharing, and a take-home prompt to keep the momentum going.
Who it’s for: Gay men 60 and older — whether you’ve never kept a journal or you used to and stopped.
Led by Mark McNease, certified Guided Autobiography Instructor and author of fifteen novels, who believes everyone in the room has a story worth writing.
