Cherrypicked stories
Seventy Six '76
Child becomes woman amidst the great summer of '76
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- 1237 reads
Dentist's Needle, The
Learning to live with a phobia
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- 519 reads
Estate Agent Survey
Indentations the chipboard wall from bedposts punched sex then addiction take away menus on the door mat gloss the gasbill a worn key front step milk...
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- 1542 reads
Snookers for Balls
A true story from the other side of the riverbank.
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- 633 reads
Let the children eat tripe
in praise of mayonnaise
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- 744 reads
Dark Horses
on the theme "against the grain"
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- 754 reads
J: 9/16/02
Work Diary, 9/16/02 Today is my partner's and my thirteenth anniversary. We're not legally married, since we aren't allowed to be, but what...
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- 845 reads
Ire-aq, fox-hunting and hypocrisy
There is a legitimate argument for attacking Iraq, but they're not honest enough to make it.
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- 1577 reads
J - Rewarding Job
It's not what your neighbours can do for you&;#8230;
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- 657 reads
I: 9/13/02
Work Diary, 9/13/02 Once, at a dinner party of sushi, marijuana, and bad wine, we discussed the theory that homosexuals are more creative than their...
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- 722 reads
H: 9/12/02
Work Diary, 9/12/02 Some ruminations: 1. The other night we were watching a nature program in which the narrator described the polluted, crappy,...
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- 821 reads
Visit (the)
Inside this camphor wood chest I have saved every breath, Each exhalation, in glass bottles stoppered with wax Since the day you began. Your first...
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- 488 reads
H ~ Jill reminds me of Trish
I shouldn't call these 'appreciation' pieces. It all went wrong.
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- 991 reads
Doodlebug
Doodlebug I remember now the ashtray, a silvered metal tower with a spinning disc that launched the crumpled stubs off at a tangent into the bowl...
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- 870 reads
One of us is par for the course
A joke about philosophy and golf.
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- 1012 reads
Etchings
Echoes from the past
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- 3143 reads
A Requiem For One Man's Life
A Parable About The Value Of Life
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- 2750 reads
Loss
Cast the falling bones my child, draw close, the flames seductive, cast shadows in our world; caves of abandoned cries. Destructive peril,
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- 1771 reads
One year on
In remembrance of September 11th
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- 1222 reads
Passage
No 24/7 filling station, no Sunday trading, no risk of crashing. So you eased your car back towards the corner of the supermarket car park, opened...
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- 1358 reads