Don’s Substack

Lyle prepares to hustle a bar but is thrown off by unexpected opulence, and underworld vibes. Two gorgeous women and a mysterious couple in…

A warm breeze rushed, Lyle looked up through the elms’ night time sway and into the sparkling canopy above everything.

Mar 13 • Don Bajema

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Playgrounds, Jung, Pecking Order and Being Clutch, Fiction but Fact.

Elementary school playgrounds can be cruel.

Mar 11 • Don Bajema

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February 2026

We left Lyle at a small town Gazebo, weighing the prospects of money from a bar, a very short read bringing memories and imaginings of the…

Lyle sat there as the gloom surrounded the gazebo and that night’s blanket turned the empty fair ground black but the slapping of the fountain remained.

Feb 25 • Don Bajema

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Lyle, always at a Crossroads, sits in a gazebo wondering should he play his guitar at a bar and wait for church, or move on. 'The Painful…

The gazebo had lathed walls, thick timber floors, and a circular roof all painted bright white.

Feb 17 • Don Bajema

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A Moment At A Train Station (a short episode for a good man, who did a bad thing, and is on the rails.) In the continuing 1930's yarn of the…

Looking out at the sunlit greenery of thick woods streaming beyond the boxcar’s open door, it occurred to Lyle that going on a year now since he’d left…

Feb 2 • Don Bajema

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January 2026

The Girl's Field

in honor of my father.

Jan 17 • Don Bajema

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"WHERE I THINK WE ARE. WHERE WE WERE. WIDESPREAD MISTAKEN HOPES. AND ART."Once in awhile I have to get things off my chest. This is one of…

We are in the most dynamic psychological, spiritual, and cultural moment of my long life (76 years).

Jan 12 • Don Bajema

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Part 11 of The Painful Birth of A Bluesman. Short read with a catch-up paragraph in italics. Thanks for reading, I'm having a good time…

Briefly, Lyle Monroe is on the run from himself as much as from society.

Jan 2 • Don Bajema

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December 2025

Part 10. Painful Birth of A Bluesman. Very short read. The mysterious couple. Dinner at the farm house. Vague threat. "Salvation." ?

Beth and Juliet leaned into the Norman Rockwell dining room from the kitchen door.

Dec 30, 2025 • Don Bajema

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Part 8 of 1930's Noire "Painful Birth of A Bluesman." Short read that catches you up with the story of a good man turned bad for a night and…

Lyle, blind in one eye now for a year, crossed many fields, stood by many fences, stood by many gates and asked the men of many family farms if he

Dec 27, 2025 • Don Bajema

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Very Short Read. I Promise..Part 7. of the Americana style novella--"The Painful Birth of A Bluesman." We find the transition of Lyle Monroe…

Lyle Monroe rolled on his side, vomited violently, produced nothing but a little bit of acrid green spit.

Dec 5, 2025 • Don Bajema

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OBSERVATION: MUDSPOT CAFE...In the East Village...ARTISTS versus POLITICS. (Very short read. Inspired by an old Facebook Post.)

BELOW IS A FACEBOOK POST FROM 9 YEARS AGO

Dec 3, 2025 • Don Bajema

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