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who will feed the fish? “You’rea good guy, a good guy, you know that? Iwas beginning to think no one here was going to join me until you showedup. Yes you showed up and I thoughtfinally someone i…
heart of strings Todayis our last day with the lone genius. Wehave locked him in the barest white room for the past month with only a tajibowood chair and a prison diet of saltines and high-nutrient…
eulogies for good Mr.Robinson “Youknow what I think? I think it’s a ploddingshame how he’s really going to be gone. I was saying to Mariette just the other day when I saw her in thesupermarket abou…
confluenceThe bounds of human intelligence imposethat that banana peel doesn’t really belong where it is. Still, the fact remains that it is there though, at the corner of thestreet. It’s been lying there for thep…
sweet light crude forever inside myhead I amwriting a story about a man writing a story. In this story within a story, another man is writing a story about thesame thing; he is also acknowledging tha…
the precarious hinge moment in time At somepoint in time, the physicists and the board members of the safety andtransportation department cleaved their collective minds together to draft plans for new…
the hotel in the treesAugust or such, 19--Paul, What doyou suppose billy goats eat? Now beforeyou go tearing and crumpling this up again with your hot temper and all, I’llhave you know that I wen…
temperatures will rise “It’s awonderful thing you’re doing, taking our little girl out to the dance. You don't know at all how she could be. She’s exceedingly shy sometimes.” Mrs. Jefferson looked do…
in-flight radio, pigeons in the park “I’vegotten so good at lying these days I don’t even know if I’m playing tricks onmyself,” Chuck said. “See just last weekI was doing my rounds at Littleton, you…
the autobus On theautobus today, I saw many fine womans. Theautobus zooms very fast down the streets and I looked at all the womans. Many have very good faces. It is the sort of faces I would very m…