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story time

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Another time—yes, there was another time, but only one other time, and that not really—I saw…
a carapace for this irredeemably querulous nature

I step out of the office and into the hall for an hors d’oeurve taste of…
predestination uncertain

Dream one. At a crowded beach on a warm, sunny day, big puffy white clouds in…
apprehension

Around two o’clock in the afternoon on a bright and chilly Chicago Thursday, a man in…
the man (with the hat)

This is the first quarter or so of a story I more or less finally finished…
conventional

A fellow called Chris Knapp in The Paris Review, not me. Maybe I should tweet about…
date night

Those two over there, yeah, the table in the corner right there. Before you got here…
seasons’ spell 4

Part 4 of 4. It’s finally over. If you want, here’s the rest: part 1, part…
seasons’ spell 3

Part 3 of 4. Read part 1 and/or part 2. Or just tell your friends you…
seasons’ spell 2

Part 2 of 4. Read part 1 here. Or else. She sits in her chair at the…
seasons’ spell 1

This is the first of a four-part storyish kind of thing. Trying something a little new…
in the telling

This story is not about to be recited, only retold. I just want you to know…
pingbacks

I sat there in my train seat with the book open on my lap hoping he…
stranger

Is this your girlfriend? The guy at the next table asked me loudly in one of…
skinny girl

Silently crying on the morning train she was, all arms and legs and despair half-heaped and…
précis

The flight came in two hours late, right on time. Every day of being here has…
follow up

It’s not easy to sit here and tell you what’s wrong with me. Not when I…
juxta

Looking at Marshall while an old blue-hair scholar sort in a wheelchair wheels around, silent hard…
delimited

It was just that he would wonder why | why he could have a vision of…
three quarters of the way back to different

One, two, three, with you. Something, silence, see. Stopped at the third and something like goodbye,…
falling in

Her birthday was two days and a couple years before mine, Lit majors both. She smoked…
wild things

Wild things. They put on their wild thing suits and get all stirred up and wreak…
all along

He walked out ahead, tolerating us, tolerating her, tolerating me enjoying her, all a little drunk…
fortune

The shoeshine guy from the store across the street walks by me on the sidewalk as…
monique

Monique speaks French and I tell her that’s nice, but not in French though because I…
losing

She gets on the train in the morning and sits nearby, just happens to, like she’s…
truth

This is the cave in which doubt, fear, and inhibition speak in whispers lightly amplified, echoing…
falling out

I fell out of love here—well, not so much fell out of love as a love, the longest-lived and…