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Last Remains
Deano bent over the camping gear in the attic, brushing away the cobwebs and dried out flies, careful not to lift his head to the sloped roof with nails sticking down through any number of the shingles that had been … Continue reading
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Curmudgeon Little Ones The Better Version Scarecrow & Dorothy Urge To Go In Counter A Serious Lucky Streak The Devil’s Disciple Magic Mushrooms Coaxial This Island Hopping A Virtual Life Oskar Forsooth Sayer Hold That Head High Mistaken Identities From … Continue reading
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Island Hopping
Geoffrey Lewis looked south where the clouds had gone greyer and lower. Nothing. He listened for the helicopter. Maybe with weather coming in, they’d take the big aluminum boat with the warm cuddy cabin. But all he heard were waves … Continue reading
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Flatlander
In the old days, according to his people’s laws, it would have been perfectly fine to replace a relative who died with someone adopted into the family. That was especially the case if the relative had been murdered by a … Continue reading
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Obsession
I sat on a bench, the sort that’s attached to a redwood picnic table, facing outwards to a shorn field that served as the town’s off-leash dog park. I threw a tennis ball, a Penn, with a ball tosser, something … Continue reading
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Gallows Hill #1 Site Report
(I have no illusion that anyone will read this report, but I wanted to put it up anyway. It’s my BIG term report for a class I took. I got an A. The professor asked for 12-15 pages; I ended … Continue reading
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The Old Clock Stopped
The old clock stopped. The mirror it had faced for most of its life reflected a blotchy 6:32. It stopped there like the final date on a gravestone. Its brass pendulum dangled dormant below the face. It was new on … Continue reading
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A Hiking Trip
Hiking alone? At 4,000-something feet? In October? Honestly? Stupid, stupid and stupider. Insight comes at the wrong time, Frank thought, and it hit him that that was insight itself. He managed to laugh a little, and imagined a smile on … Continue reading
Di-a-tomaceous Death
Tommy Fitzgerald sat stiffly in his truck, toying with a stale Marlboro he kept in reserve in the clean ashtray, a deliberate temptation to prove he didn’t have to smoke anymore. It was the last one and so long to … Continue reading
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Life Goes By Quick: Money Thoughts From A Boomer Retiree With Cancer
(I was given the opportunity to write a guest column for my #1 favorite blog, FinancialSaumari.com. Below is what I wrote along with some comments that really made my day. Do take a look at that website and add your … Continue reading
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