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Atlantic Hunting Grounds
Sailing the chill waters of the Atlantic Ocean, the cargo ship MS Harper was the only speck of brightness in the vast moonless night. Floodlights…
The Last Fariseo
I’m sitting here in Hermosillo at my little table on the patio with the spiders and the ants. It’s the Catholic holy time, Lent, March 24th. The…
“Chainsaw Prayer,” “Setting the Apple Store on Fire,” and “Lawnmower Man”
Chainsaw Prayer This is my chainsaw prayer, that you will lick with that twelve inch tongue of yours the galvanized teeth of my saw before it bites…
Gross-Breesen, Part 3
INT. MANSION---NIGHT Dinner is being served. The young men are served by the girls who then seat themselves and all begin to eat. DAVID Is anyone…
These Tender Winglets
butterfly's winglet ---gentle touching of nectar that I want to taste winglets in nectar ---friend of butterfly---a bee wants to be fulfilled…
The Perfect Santa, Part 1
Hilda expertly pulled her long grey hair into a ponytail and then fastened it into a neat bun. She penciled in her eyebrows that were no longer…
Sewing Workshop
My friend Samson of Sasamón, one day he pointed out an apartment in Madrid run only by women, such as “Seamstress Workshop,” telling me that “If they…
The Garden Gate
Living in this wonderful house has been such a treat; the first year has been hard work, fixing up everything, and trying to get control of the…
At Quark’s Bar
…“You know, you’re a real snoutfair?”’s all I said to her---spoken, mind you, as a firm believer in urbane wit, you know, just oozing eutrapelia?…
The Debasement of Igor Prostakovich, Part 2
VII. He never saw that play and apparently, it received plenty of recognition. The artist called for the common man to rise up against oppression,…
