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Trays
It was the witching hour at The Willows, the hour when the lights went down and voices settled into whispers before stopping entirely. A handful of the devout sat in the library, all looking toward a bookshelf, which was covered … Continue reading
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I Get By With A Lot of Help From My Friends
I haven’t written squat about the market in a very long while. That hasn’t stopped friends, mostly friends, not always friends, from pointing out how wrong my view of the market has been. The stock market that is. I admit … Continue reading
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No One Wanted To Be A Hero
No one wanted to be a hero. No one. Not now, anyway. It was over, pretty much, or would be soon enough. That’s what everyone was saying. That’s what newspapers said and the last one most guys saw was “yesterday’s … Continue reading
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It Wasn’t A Coffin
It wasn’t a coffin. For starters, it was metal and vertical; coffins are made of wood and lay horizontally. He knew that much. And coffins didn’t have slats at eye level, presumably for airing out sweaty gym gear, or hooks … Continue reading
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Today I Am A Man
Jay Hyman cringed beneath the Ark. His eyes were lowered in what could have been mistaken for an effort to hide emotion, tears. Indeed, many watching smiled at that; it was a big day for Jay. The cringe, however, was … Continue reading
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Wilce’s Dream
At the persistence of his father, Cliff Skinner, his mother attempted a breathing technique to slow her labor enough to push her soon-to-be-born baby out at midnight. Clifford had heard that the first child of the new year would get … Continue reading
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What I Don’t Miss About Work
In the realm of financial services there is an array of exams one needs to pass, starting with the word “series” and followed by what seems an infinite number though, oddly, start with, like, a Series 3, skips to Series … 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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