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bibliophile kid (excerpt) - "lunch"
I took lunch to the lakeside to relish what little sun there was. Though it was high summer the cloud was thick and the lake had risen far above the...
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bibliophile kid (excerpt) - "a journey south"
I journeyed south for a day or two to meet with an agent friend – of course I use the term lightly; agents have few friends, I even fewer – I...
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reflections and miscellany
When I was 18 my friends and I garnered some local notoriety for destroying a wooden bench in a churchyard for firewood. We were sleeping outside in...
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remembering insults
There was this one kid, year older than me, I called Bother Cheeks, shouted victoriously across the playground, myself a fat swine in school-crested...
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bibliophile kid (excerpt) - "very pink skin"
A few months after the incident at the house party I passed the partner of the poet in the supermarket. He was looking at multipacks of matches and...
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