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“The Door at the End of the Hall,” “Memoir,” “Playing Baseball,” and “The Best She’s Ever Had”
The Door at the End of the Hall I walk toward the door at the end of the hall behind which all of the trouble starts I watch my hand reach toward the…
Eternal Beauty
For Kate, the world of cosmetics was her whole life. She had been working in her aunt's perfumery in New York since she was a child, and after…
“Questions for Us,” “My Poems Grow Like a Tree,” “What Color Was Coral,” and Other Poems
Questions for us Our fellow species on this earth are magnificent, eccentric beasts, creations of evolution over many millennia. Why do we not…
In the Middle
They say the last thing you see before you die is the thing you’ll see forever. I’m not sure I believe it, but what is true, beyond any shadow of a…
In Psychiatric Department
1: In Psychiatric Department A yellow Dark-skinned girl is Sitting sideways on a Wooden armrest Long fringes fall over She looks at me through her…
The Personality Cult
“Good morning, Thomas; good morning, Anna,” said the President, cheerily, as he strode back into his palace after taking a lengthy stroll in the…
Skooling on Sundaes
She was a beautiful silver-blonde girl, not exactly Swedish but not exactly not either, married to a most likeable guy, widely considered handsome,…
The Shadow Men, Part 1 — Excerpt 1
Moss, Norway: May 16, 1921 Five armed men stood around a serrated table in the center of the room. The snow-covered building was located a few miles…
We
Mortal gods take their importance, true magicians Great power perceived by what we give them, thieves of emotion Leave the curtain closed and enjoy…
A Wee Bit of Pain in the Gulliver: Kubrick, the Moon, a B-52, The Shining, the Hollyweird Blacklist, a Headache
For a man who made only a dozen major motion pictures (sadly, he died before the final edit of Eyes Wide Shut), Stanley Kubrick was a Hollyweird…
