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At the Chigger Festival

There was a tiny trapeze, barely a quarter inch tall, with a swing hanging from cords so fine you couldn’t see them, and the nearly microscopic bar seemed to float in mid-air. A beautiful young female chigger in sequined leotard … Continue reading

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A Little Conversation about a Tiger

Why were you late to school? Well, my granpa was bringing me in the school today and he couldn’t make it. Why couldn’t he make it? Well, he got bit by a tiger. I see. You know where this tiger … Continue reading

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Bag Lady

Christmas Eve, jury duty in Santa Monica. Long lunch break at MacDonald’s. Eating lunch—bag lady watching. Hope she doesn’t come over. She does. I decide to leave half my fries, half my shake. She stands and watches. I get ready to … Continue reading

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Deep Snow (followup): Radio Transcript Just Received

I don’t know if you can hear this, but we’re transmitting on our last battery. We have no more power for our transmitter or for any of our equipment. The entire station has been buried in what we fear may be four or … Continue reading

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“Untold Backstory” — Cast of Characters

The story in my post of last September contains a large number of characters. Recently, the entire cast, with a few adjustments, reappeared in an expanded, more dramatic version that appears in my forthcoming collection, Brain Frieze. In September I also … Continue reading

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Untold Backstory — some notes

The evolution of this piece surprised me (link). It started just as an experiment to see how difficult it might be to write a few paragraphs making connections that were actually idiotic and not connected at all, but in a … Continue reading

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Short Story: “Untold Backstory”

The following story might be a lost voice-over for a History Channel program. Or (more likely) a demonstration of how we manage to make literally everything relate to everything else. We find connections between absolutely anything and anything else, no matter … Continue reading

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