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Four Conversations

* * *  At my parents’ house for Mother’s Day… “Hey Mom, do you have an extra towel I can bring back to my apartment?” “A bath towel?” “Yeah, mine has this weird smell.” “Please tell me you have more … Continue reading

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Night and Day

* * * I turn on the TV at night… I am a man. I am lost. For what I lack in wit, I make up for in abundance with body hair, body odor and body fat. I am stupid, … Continue reading

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Lottery Tickets

I don’t like priests. Priests are thugs in God’s gang – the enforcers, the money collectors, the drug pushers. They get their orders from the top, and make sure everyone in the neighborhood falls in line. Do this, don’t do … Continue reading

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On The Road – Part Two

 To recap, Sean and a friend have departed Philadelphia at four-thirty in the morning, heading south towards Newark, Delaware. After a cab leaves them to walk down the side of the highway and an ill-advised detour takes them in search … Continue reading

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On The Road – Part One

Somewhere, thousands of feet above your head, through the casual clusters of cumulonimbus casting shadows as they slowly slide across sunlit skies, someone is taking a shit. That’s what I think about when I see an airplane. Some think about … Continue reading

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Young Love

I want to be cool. Ever since I first heard what cool was, ever since I had seen it epitomized in a fourth grade Trapper Keeper, ever since I had witnessed it striding across a gymnasium dance floor in stone … Continue reading

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A Squirrel’s Tail

Where do squirrels go to die? Road kill aside, with the large amount of squirrels running about, you’d think we would see bodies everywhere. What is the life expectancy of squirrels? It can’t be too long and I doubt there … Continue reading

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Bedtime Story

As a child there is nothing scarier than the unknown. What’s in the closet? What’s outside the window? What’s under the bed? We don’t know, but it could be anything. Children are impressionable and need constant reassurance that everything will … Continue reading

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Tips For Receiving Bad Holiday Gifts

This holiday season, remember to always express gratitude for the gifts you’re given. Or just fake it.   10 Tips for Receiving a Shitty Gift Immediately smile in the same manner you do when shown a friend’s obviously cheap engagement … Continue reading

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A New Friend

I woke wrapped in soft sheets that stung the stubble on my face with jealous static kisses each time I tried rotating to the other side of the bed. Slipping a toe from under the covers, I poked around on … Continue reading

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