Month: December 2018

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Voices From The Plains, 2nd Edition

Voices From the Plains, 2nd Editionby David Kubicek

Voices From The Plains, 2nd Edition, was published in early December, 2018. Book launches were held in Lincoln and Omaha  and other events are planned around Nebraska. This anthology contains fiction, nonfiction, and poetry from more than 60 Nebraska Writers Guild members–including an excerpt from Empath, my young adult dystopian novel-in-progress. One of the oldest continuous writers organizations in the United States, the Nebraska Writers Guild was founded in 1925 and counts Mari Sandoz, Bess Streeter Aldrich, John G. Neihardt, and Willa Cather among its first members.  Pick up an eBook ($4.99) or a paperback ($19.99) online at Amazon,  Barnes & Noble, or at selected bookstores around Nebraska. 

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Shaving off the Mustache

 

David Kubicek Caricature
Caricature by Paul Zanderholm

by David Kubicek

I don’t remember when I grew my mustache, but I remember when I shaved it off–Labor Day, 2000. I’d only had it a few years, but growing it in the first place had been my wife, Cheryl’s, idea. Well, she had suggested I grow a beard, but I’d tried that once and had called it quits after three weeks because of the itching. The stache was a compromise.

After a few years I got tired of the mustache and decided to shave it off. My son, Sean, had just turned five. Since he didn’t remember me with a completely hairless face, Cheryl thought it would be a good idea if he watched me shave so the sudden change wouldn’t freak him out.

So on Labor Day morning, I laid out my shaving cream and razor and called Sean into the bathroom. He stood beside me and watched as I lathered up and made a few swipes with the razor. Then I wiped my face clean and bent down to let him see.

“How does it look?” I asked.

“Fine,” he said.

Then he tilted his head to the left, then to the right, then back to the left.

Then he said:

“Now put it back.”

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