At the beginning, there were the not-yet-living. Although they were something less than present, and something more than absent, the not-yet-living were...
I live in a college town in western Oregon and lately people here have been talking about their small-town Midwestern upbringing like it was a war they...
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I try to imagine a specific reader in time and space. Sometimes I imagine myself. Not the current one, but a recent one: Steven back in 2011. And I write for...
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I try to imagine a specific reader in time and space. Sometimes I imagine myself. Not the current one, but a recent one: Steven back in 2011. And I write for...
* Story contains bad language
The pineapples arrived six or twelve at a time.“A half dozen or a dozen,” Culver said and Jane wondered why she hadn’t thought to group them that way in her...
In seeking to resolve a conflict between two parties one can assume each believes it is acting in good faith just as the hopeful gravel waits for your rough...
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Dear stupid forest.Dear patently retarded forest.Dear beautiful ugly stupid forestfull of nightingaleswhy won’t you shut up.What do you want from me.A train...
I am making borscht please do not laugh at me I seem to have ruined mysoul the quality of television programming grows stronger all the...
People agree with sleep They nod into it but death they sometimes fight off until they can’t and then from their graves...
The day not redolent of anything in particular but more generally it folds into itself a little bag that hides a larger bag inside The day promises only to...
When you split infinity you just get moreinfinity It’s different with crackers with bellswith an eagle When an eagle flies intoa bell the bell rings the...
I sit with my head in the meadow and compare it to the stonesIn my biography I own a homeI associate my home with pleasant feelingsIn my biography I am very...