I still get pictures from him sometimes. –Jon Lasser
I still get pictures from him sometimes. Everything was a lie. His taxi medallion. His stint in the army. The police, where he was terminated for unauthorized use of force, unable to stop pounding his...
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These are nights that stretch their arms wide and last forever. I cannot stop thinking, cannot find closure for this. It’s a metronome that lessens when I’m among friends but never entirely goes away....
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My main problem with working is that it requires work. Rather than think of myself as “lazy,” I prefer to think of myself as efficient. If efficiency is defined as “how to get more as a result of less...
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Alright, have you heard this one? El Niño walks into a bar and orders a scotch and soda. The bar is mostly empty. A priest, a nun, and a rabbi are sitting at a table near the back. The priest is...
View Article(Ramona and Nobody) –Allan Shapiro
“Left turn in .5 miles.” “Got it, Maggie. Thanks,” Esau says. He is hunched over the steering wheel now. Time is short and sweat is beading. Class-conscious bumper stickers bleeding the streets of...
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When I was a little girl, I fell in love with the most amazing man I’d ever seen. I vowed that I when I grew up I would find him, and that even though I was just a child I’d never feel the same way...
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