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John Hendricks

Salem
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Oregonian, #GoBeavs educated, former TV news journalist (KPTV, KXLY, KTVZ), storyteller, photographer, communicator.
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“Working for a Livin”

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By John Hendricks
| Medium
He eyed the peasant, grimacing. Lice crawled laconically on the dirty tunic, slowly making their way to his shat drawers. He swatted at a fly. It may be time to go to the leper colony at Saint-Thomas a'Aizer and collect a tax. Easy money. Plus, the lepers were decent conversationalists. Times being what they were. He peeled the tunic off the stiffening corpse and stuffed it into his bag. He left the drawers. Time to cut up another rope. Maybe sell another knot.
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Gonna Make You Sweat

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By John Hendricks
| Medium
“Give me the music, yeah, I’m gonna make you sweat.” — C+C Music Factory At the gym I go to, they have a traditional steam sauna. In my mind, I saw myself as a member of the Roman Senate, relaxing after a day of taunting the Plebians with my sonorous voice at the local caldarium, discussing politics, the wonders of the Cloaca Maxima, and where the afterparty is on the Ides of March.
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The Key

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By John Hendricks
| Medium
Once upon a time, in a galaxy quite similar to this one, I knew a woman with the most delightful passion. She loved old skeleton keys. As Jim Stafford once suggested through verse… “I think of that girl from time to time…” Though I recall that she had no issues with spiders nor snakes. I never got a chance to ask her what the skeleton key meant to her. A fascination with something crafted by the Ancient Romans? Maybe it reminded her of a key her grandfather used in a job or the ancestral home.
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