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Biggie Bag

Biggie Bag My buddy called. He asked if I was going to the bar to watch football. I said I was. He told me how he lost his ass at the track the day before. He said he was broke. He asked if he could borrow $200 so he could sit at the bar and […]

Separate Checks

Separate Checks My father was buried at 12:30 p.m. It was then 4 p.m. I am my father’s only child. For all intents and purposes, he was my only parent. Of course, I have a mother. But she’s never been a mother. From her, I have a half-sister. From my half-sister, I have a nephew. […]

Halloween

Halloween The boy crossed the street. It was dusk. He walked up to me. He was wearing a short-sleeved dress shirt. Glasses. Slacks. Tie. He was carrying a clipboard. He was probably 13 or 14-years-old. Given his dress, I thought maybe he was from a family of religious freaks. Or maybe he just dressed funny. […]

It’s Over, Now

It’s Over, Now Two days ago, I got the call. I rushed to the hospital. By the time I got there, my father was dead. Actually, he’d been dead on arrival. I imagined the call would come someday. I imagined I was prepared. I’d spent years trying to prepare, telling myself, “It’s everybody’s time…sometime. No […]

Goodbye, Persona

Goodbye, Persona All the years of building a persona. All the years of constructing a character. All the laborious Saturday nights, alone, with bottles and stacks of books and music and films gathered from the library. Obscure stuff, of course. Edgy stuff. Artsy and avant-garde stuff that nobody but me, I imagined, knew about. By […]

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Caricatures

Caricatures the obnoxiously affected effete and effeminate caricature of the intellectual asks rhetorically will you raise the fist or take … Continue reading Caricatures

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