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Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Yahgs

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The pass from Jaromir Jagr was perfect: straight through the heart of the crease, sending the puck just high enough to float over the tangle...
Monday, March 25, 2013

...or whatever

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Just then, in Small Workroom 4, Rachel, I guess thinking the Spiderhead empty, got up and did this happy little shuffle, like she was some c...

it's a twofer!

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The autumn colors, that glinting river, that lead-colored cloud pointing down like a rounded arrow at that half-remodled McDonald's st...

I'll leave this one up to your imagination

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He looked like a skeleton with a mullet. ( Tenth of December  by George Saunders)
Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Spanish Aficionados

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"Like hungry children let loose at a buffet, Barcelona fans can often be guilty of overindulging." Sam Borden of the NYTimes ( A...
Wednesday, February 20, 2013

'Tis Rotten

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Fueled by the insatiable advertising needs of the Food Network and a viewing public suddenly interested in distinguishing deglazing from dev...
Friday, February 01, 2013

Holy, but not potable

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In the doorway, the young vicar attempts to engage them. He holds a hand to his doughy waist like a nervous old woman, a flop of brown hair ...
Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Well worth it (he says sarcastically)

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...a university degree is like a bungee cord, lowering in and pulling out with dangerous velocity. ( NW  by  Zadie Smith)
Monday, January 21, 2013

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The club was called Delvecchio's, and it sat amid an expanse of blacktop like a cruise ship on a flat, dark sea. ( All Shook Up  by T....

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Before I could react, her voice was coming at me, soft and passionate, syllables kneading me like fingers. ( All Shook Up  by T.C. Boyle)
Thursday, December 27, 2012

Ready For Takeoff

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"Clean and smooth like a tar runway, his forehead sloped sharply down and out." (Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien)
Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Crying in a Winter Wonderland

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The weeping came in gasps, as snow breaks from cliffs. (Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien)
Monday, November 05, 2012

Record Store Blues

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The violence of Portland licked right up to the edge of the store and left a spew like that yellow foam on city beaches where old rubber d...
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Wednesday, October 31, 2012

A Rough First Impression, Norman

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There were also the prisoners. Some looked like the downtrodden, to say the least. They were simpleminded, or misshapen in body or posture, ...

Dead Serious

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"Serious as a body bag." --James Patterson, NYPD Red
Tuesday, October 09, 2012

Magic Time

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Gary and this fellow Val kept looking at car keys like old magicians studying old dried herbs, weird! (The Executioner's Song by Norma...
Tuesday, October 02, 2012

Utah Colors

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In the mountains, the snow was iron gray and purple in the hollows, and glowed like gold on every slope that faced the sun. (The Executioner...
Monday, October 01, 2012

Prison Cliff

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Being here is like walking up to the edge and looking over 24 hours a day for more days then you care to recall  (Gary Gilmore on prison lif...
Sunday, September 16, 2012

Twofer

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Bailey didn't look up from his reading so she wheeled around then and faced the children's mother, a young woman in slacks, whose ...
Thursday, August 02, 2012

Shackled and Drunk

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The only sound in the messhall was Harrogate struggling to free himself from the table. Wilson was standing over him like a faith healer o...
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