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No Man in No Place
John froze at the sight of the old man, who was down on one knee, holding himself up with one hand on the park bench and clasping a thin wooden stick…
Unencumbered
Unencumbered. That really was the perfect word. Dusty Barrett couldn’t remember where or when he’d heard it before, only that it had to be the very…
Broke
Of course it broke. I had been laying in bed staring at the ceiling for nearly two hours. There was no way I was going to fall asleep until I went…
Win, Part 1
We hadn’t seen each other for years, but never in the time we were together cared to once talk about our jobs, wives, kids. We sat, disheveled after…
“Clam Jammed,” “Modern Babylon,” “Riverbanked,” and “Silence”
Clam Jammed I am a confident woman, Not afraid to go up to a man and show a little interest--- The problem, as of late, is the Female version of a…
.Against the Wall
.letters to death .death, you have come to walk behind me .as you trot to my regard .i feel your presence .a bit taunting but might as well .you are…
A Feminism’s Carol, Part 3: The Spirit of Feminism’s Present
VII. Like the day before, a spirit once again introduces itself to Aunt Hillary and takes her for a ride. VIII. The formerly well-ordered and…
Third Man on the Mountain is a Retroactive Critique of a Postmodern West
When Walt Disney’s Third Man on the Mountain was released in 1959, it was another family-friendly movie based on the children’s novel Banner in the…
Undertaker
I. Yurka went over the potatoes: small, for planting; large, for food. He had only a few left: merchants had stopped transporting products from…
