Robert Mitchell Jr.

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AboutWelcome to my virtual office. I’m not really not in Room 808 in the Hackard Building, and 808 Hackard is not a reference to smoking marijuana in Hawaii. It’s a fictional address, an homage to a famous writer and his greatest character. If you know whose fictional office address was 808 Hackard Building, New York, NY (without googling it) post a comment. I write a lot of stuff that never sells and nobody reads. After 32 years I have to figure out if I’m a crappy writer, a lazy writer, or a just a very very unlucky writer. I have to know which of the the three it is, so I’ve decided to put some of my stuff up on the web to see if anybody likes it. Okay, so I dangle a participle from time to time. Maybe that’s why I’ve never been published. My wife says it’s because my stuff isn’t mainstream enough and is generally just too weird. Maybe there are four options instead of three. We’ll see. I shouldn’t say I’ve never published, but almost never. A couple of poems in the Journal of Asian Martial arts back in the 90s. I reviewed a few games…

February 22, 2026

The Clarksville News

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My paternal grandfather, Forrest J. Mitchell Jr. was editor of The Clarksville News in Clarksville, Virginia.

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AboutWelcome to my virtual office. I’m not really not in Room 808 in the Hackard Building, and 808 Hackard is not a reference to smoking marijuana in Hawaii. It’s a fictional address, an homage to a famous writer and his greatest character. If you know whose fictional office address was 808 Hackard Building, New York, NY (without googling it) post a comment. I write a lot of stuff that never sells and nobody reads. After 32 years I have to figure out if I’m a crappy writer, a lazy writer, or a just a very very unlucky writer. I have to know which of the the three it is, so I’ve decided to put some of my stuff up on the web to see if anybody likes it. Okay, so I dangle a participle from time to time. Maybe that’s why I’ve never been published. My wife says it’s because my stuff isn’t mainstream enough and is generally just too weird. Maybe there are four options instead of three. We’ll see. I shouldn’t say I’ve never published, but almost never. A couple of poems in the Journal of Asian Martial arts back in the 90s. I reviewed a few games…

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