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How to Succeed in a Mormon Mission Without Really Trying Part II
“Open wide,” the bishop said. “And tell me, are you going on a mission?” Ethan garbled some incomprehensible response. The bishop...
Aaron R. Garcia
Jul 264 min read


How to Succeed in a Mormon Mission Without Really Trying - Part I
Below is an excerpt from the novel I’m shopping, The 10% Mission, based on my experience as a missionary in Peru in the 1980s: At the...
Aaron R. Garcia
Jul 165 min read


Mormon Lingo
Here are just a few terms to start: Bear Testimony: In front of the congregation, blubber at the podium for a few minutes to show how...
Aaron R. Garcia
Jul 152 min read


Articles About How to Get Traffic to Your Website Are Vaporware
When Steve Martin was doing standup as an up-and-coming comedian, he had a bit that went something like this: You can be a millionaire...
Aaron R. Garcia
Feb 21, 20233 min read


Dereliction
The day Mulhausen shot the CIO in weekly staff was also the day I ignored Blair all morning. Although she was pissed off and cannily...
Aaron R. Garcia
Jan 29, 20226 min read


5 Ways to Become a Less Positive Person
You're at a party and you meet up with someone you haven't seen in a while, and you are surprised to find them more confident, more...
Aaron R. Garcia
Jan 19, 20223 min read


Stop Writing Down Your Goals
In the words of Pablo Picasso: Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon...
Aaron R. Garcia
Oct 31, 20204 min read


3. A Man for the Job
You rub your hand along the top of the smooth wood mantel above the fireplace as you ponder life and death. Such a serious thing. Every...
Aaron R. Garcia
Sep 16, 20207 min read


1.2
It had been twenty-six days. The bedroom, now known as The Cave, was beginning to smell worse than ever, probably because he had left...
Aaron R. Garcia
Jun 13, 202010 min read


2. Delegation
The day Mulhausen shot the CIO in Weekly Staff was good for more reasons than one. It's the day traffic was jammed up for miles and made...
Aaron R. Garcia
Jun 13, 20205 min read


1. Blair
The day Mulhausen shot the CIO in Weekly Staff was bad for worse reasons than that. It was also the day Blair found out I had sex with my...
Aaron R. Garcia
Jun 6, 20204 min read


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The police officer stood over the trail of blood, which extended nearly twelve feet from the curb where the car was, across the grassy...
Aaron R. Garcia
Jun 6, 20204 min read


2. Lack of Ease
A woman. This particular woman has jet-black hair and milky white skin, the flesh of innocence and purity. She lives in a modest,...
Aaron R. Garcia
Jun 6, 20203 min read


1. A Phone Call
It takes a certain kind of person to kill. You strike a match and put the flame to the end of your Camel, the smooth Turkish and domestic...
Aaron R. Garcia
Mar 9, 20202 min read


When Writer's Block Clock Blocks You
What is writer's block? Ask a psychologist. I'm here to tell you how to get rid of it. Here are 8 unproven methods: 1. Drink More All the...
Aaron R. Garcia
Feb 21, 20203 min read


Author at the Gym
Right before Covid-19 ruined workouts at the gym for everyone, I wrote this. My workouts were already ruined and it had nothing to do...
Aaron R. Garcia
Feb 15, 20204 min read


Sex Scenes
Remember the 70's? Of course you don't. Either it's a blur or you're too young. But back in the 70's and even into the 80's if you had an...
Aaron R. Garcia
Jan 3, 20202 min read
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