I Used to be a Superhero
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I Used to be a Superhero (Preview)
...Looking out from atop The Citizen's Bank Building, staring wistfully like the seldom seen hawks that used to frequent this place, I'd search the city below, my city, for crimes against the poor folk that I knew would find no help in Superman or Batman. Hell, even the Black Panther...
A Deadly Melodic Revelry (Preview)
...Their grief scouring the walls of prison complexes. Man or beast or yet most expediently defined as political fodder, no one knows which voice cries loudest in sorrowful lament. The difference is muffled by cement...
An Ode to the Kids in the Park (Preview)
...Much love to the kids who know, huddled down, dew-dampened jeans grow cold along the seams as steam rises up and blows away from the chilled skin exposed to the elements,...
A Middle Aged Cup of Coffee (Preview)
...Trying to discern the intent behind such intricate designs which dare to reveal themselves only in millennial arcs that bend well out beyond our understanding...
The Vanishing Man (Preview)
...the Filmmaker's Special I’d drank and from the engagement when my manz en nem said to me as I headed to the door, Watch out, dude, there's a serial killer loose on the North Shore targeting revelers and leaving them floating in the Chicago River. I laughed. You can't be serious...
Requiem for a Cleveland Ave Warrior (Preview)
...the significance of my birth certificate and if they should chose to be burdened with it? Will there be anyone endeared to an idolized memory of what we once did? A moment of laughter, some solemnity or shared sense of seriousness? Or in the end, will it only matter that I'd fallen into...
I Used to be a Superhero (c. 2025)
Concept
This 10 track spoken word album is developed from the introspective works of acclaimed writer and spoken word artist g. e. moore. It takes the form of an audio chap book which examines the struggle to find enduring meaning in a world which fails to recognize the value of the individual.
Production
Produced by Rich Kern at Grandfather Paraducks.
To be released in 2025.
Credits
All lyrics, words, and vocal performance by g. e. moore.
All music composed, performed, produced, mixed, and/or mastered by Rich Kern.
Album cover art by g. e. moore.
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Bealz: Prince of the Southside
Novel by g.e. moore. Available for purchase at Amazon and other outlets.
Synopsis
Hailing from Chicago’s hardscrabble Southside streets, Bealz must contend daily with violence, danger, and rejection, all while having little to no contact with his mother, who aged out of the very same foster home he finds himself trapped in, and only able to wonder about an absent father, imprisoned before he was even born.
Soon enough though, he finds his parents harbor secrets that will forever change his life. Secrets big enough to rip his world apart as they introduce him to a brand new reality. A wondrous existence where legends live and breathe and monsters fight daily to destroy everything and everyone he’s ever loved. Bealz will discover he is a child of that other world, descended of royal blood, that his father hails from the Great House Askai, rulers of the Long Plains Kingdom of the Incata, and that his mother, a child of Earth, wields the powers of a goddess.
As these secrets are revealed, Bealz embarks upon a journey across two worlds, battling Saints and the demon Shitani along the way in a race to restore balance before it’s all too late.