Clinton, South Carolina, Thursday, February 16, 2017, 10:20 a.m.

One of my daily duties is to delete spam comments from my websites, wellpilgrim.wordpress.com and montedutton.com. Occasionally, one of them suggests:

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I’m afraid to click. As a general rule, no good can come of it. If I did, though, and if a virus didn’t immediately become annoyed at how little money could be instantly transferred from my accounts, it might be possible for me to post automatically such dazzling prose as:

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If that sentence alone would not bring my words to millions, then perhaps I could automatically generate this:

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I’m on it.

I think Trump said this the other day:

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It had something to do with a one-state solution.

I’m sure something could be done about this. In fact, sometimes I get spam comments that reveal how to get rid of spam comments. Hire a criminal to solve a crime, I guess.

Spam was much better when it came with scrambled eggs.

If you’d like me to mail you a signed copy of Cowboys Come Home, or any of my other novels, you can find my address and instructions at montedutton.com. (montedutton.com/blog/merchandise)

I’ve written five novels and a collection of short stories. I’ve also written a number of books about sports, mostly about NASCAR. You can find most of them here.

The Kindle versions of my books, where available, can be found above. Links below are to print editions.

My new novel is a western, Cowboys Come Home. Two World War II heroes come home from the Pacific to Texas.

I’ve written a crime novel about the corrosive effects of patronage and the rise and fall of a powerful politician and his dysfunctional family, Forgive Us Our Trespasses.

I’ve written about what happens to a football coach when he loses everything, Crazy of Natural Causes. It’s a fable of life’s absurdity.

I’ve written a tale of the Sixties in the South, centered on school integration and a high school football team, The Intangibles.

I’ve written a rollicking yarn about the feds trying to track down and manipulate a national hero who just happens to be a pot-smoking songwriter, The Audacity of Dope.

I’ve written a collection of 11 short stories, all derived from songs I wrote, Longer Songs.

 

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