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Category Archives: Loose Chunks of Debris
Descansos III – Details
Not long after crossing into New Mexico from Texas, I abandoned Interstate 40 for Highway 84 stretching from Santa Rosa to Las Vegas. It was a lightly-traveled two-lane ribbon through desert shrubs, but it had its collection of roadside memorials. … Continue reading
My Father’s Notebook
My father died in 1955, when I was a year old. I have no memory of him, and there are no home movies. I know him through a few black and white photographs, and the recollection of some anecdotes I … Continue reading
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Shadows of Montreal
Awful week. I’ve nothing to add but music. Here’s an old song written by Toronto’s @jordansafer, engineered by McGill’s George Massenburg, sung by Myrrhine. Enjoy.
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The Long Hot Summer, 1967
I was 13 during my first riot lockdown. It was the summer of 1967 in Milwaukee, and, like dozens of cities across the U.S., race riots in poor neighborhoods were claiming lives and property. On July 30, a fight somewhere … Continue reading
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Descansos II – Cleansing
Descansos II. Cleansing. Continue reading
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Descansos
Traveling cross-country, each time I see a Descanso I wonder about the story. Who died? What happened? Were they young? Old? At fault? An innocent victim? Descansos are rare on interstates, and some states have banned them. But here in … Continue reading
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How to Publish in 12 Months or More
Writing fiction is wrenching and emotional. On some days, writing a novel is a hateful task, on other days it’s your reason to breathe. It’s hard work, for sure. And once it is conceived and started, it becomes parasitic in … Continue reading
Ant Patrol
It’s 2 a.m. and there’s an ant crawling along the edge of my laptop screen. Continue reading
What Ellis gave us
I have a folder in my filing cabinet called ‘Ellis Avery’. It’s filled with my semester’s work in her Master Fiction class 10 years back, and, more poignantly, the notes she’d handwritten in the margins. It also holds several manila … Continue reading
Handiwork
Summer near the ocean brings balmy air that frizzes hair and seeps humidity into crisp dry sheets no sooner than you lay them down. But it’s nothing compared to what it does to the outside of a house. After a … Continue reading
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