My mother blamed my recent bad luck on my refusal to go to church, and she harangued my friend Etor to do something about it. He wasn’t a Catholic, which…
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[Image Credit: “Stormtroops Advancing Under Gas” by Otto Dix] The 20th Century waited up until just before dawn before sneaking out to use the bins next door (its own being…
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[Photo Credit: Beth Rakouskas, courtesy of Arthur W. Toga, USC Laboratory of Neuro Imaging] A spacious brightly lit auditorium. A few dozen people, most of them young, fill the rows…
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Cat Power is blasting, but all I really hear is my friend Erica retching. She is bird-boned and high yellow by her own proclamation, yet her chiseled, golden cheeks are…
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1 We’ve been waiting for more than two centuries for someone to write The Great American Novel. There have been countless very, very good novels, but none that was truly…
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for Mr. Beefy This way now same as last way then, the head bent filled with all those phrases been, unsure if aloud I have just said them, slipped past…
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My wife and I had both been scholarship students at our respective boarding schools and when our daughter turned 13 years old and started eighth grade, Wendy started squinting at…
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The explosive charges worked fine. The wall caved in as expected. But the specs were wrong, or a decimal disappeared somewhere. The slight possibility of a wrong address, some dyslexic…
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“The rats are everywhere,” the exterminator says, rolling up the blue sleeves on his overall. I tell him he doesn’t have to take off his shoes, but he quickly reprimands…
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If Mark didn’t study tonight, he would fail the Abnormal Psychology test tomorrow. And he couldn’t afford to fail that test. He was already on academic probation. If he started…
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—It was supposed to be breezy this afternoon. —And now it’s hot. —Wait up. —Hurry up. —It hurts. —What hurts? —Everything hurts but it’s my foot at the moment. I…
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Chapter One: The Royals, Game One We were being careful with me. No loud noises, no extraneous stimulation, no horror movies, no rich food, no major decisions, no nothing. But…
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