Month: May 2024
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Nostalgia for Dummies
White Impala parked on a side street,blue Chevy Malibu at a drive-in theater –the images are as useless asa box…
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Outside the Temple, Waiting for Christine
So this is what waiting is all about,pacing before the temple,pretending comfort on the concrete steps,admiring the marble tripod,the entrance…
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Where Stories Come From
Back in 1977, in my mid-twenties, I wrote a story called “A Caring Man.” I was attending the Iowa Writers…
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Book Review: “Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story”
“One definition of living might be the perpetual swapping of story lines,” Leslie Jamison writes. “We trade in the scripts…
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Roots and Wings
I grew roots. She grew wings. My ground and her skies moved in paces that could only coexist for a…
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The Apartment Above the Cafe
Omaha, Nebraska May 7, 1962 Margaret Meyer noticed the sign Monday morning as she approached the entrance of Cafe Sásta.…
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Dundas Station
We rode the subway to the Eaton Centre,exited the turnstiles, and saw a homelesswoman extending her paper cup. I walkedby.…
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Bobby & Me
On the flight from LA to Toronto I was bumpedto Business Class, some airline SNAFU, and thereI was next to…
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Public Transportation
If I took the car I would have missedthe woman offering her seatand her insistence to sit – please sit…
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Tadarida
we begin at dusk lying in wait while the world moves apace oblivious to our woes and whims the night…