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Tap of a bean-sized heart

Since you died I have not been able to read books – ink on pulp holds as much meaning for me as gravel, as a doorknob – or write three coherent lines in…

Sep 29 • 

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August 2025

One son, a thousand suns

Today, the sixth of August, is the birthday of my late father and the death date of my late mother – what the coroner estimated, anyway, in writing his…

Aug 6 • 

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May 2025

The discovery of the archetypal world

On the playground Leela skips in dappled light amid the chirpy shouts of her friends as they scamper.

May 20 • 

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April 2025

How to become an original writer in three days

I was squinting at bottles of dish soap on a high shelf when the sudden blow knocked me sideways, an impact that landed slightly under my left shoulder.

Apr 22 • 

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Homo crackdown in parks to continue

Here comes Frank, bachelor in his 40s with a mincing stride and fluttery hands, his dramatic impediment a lisp that somehow makes itself known even in…

Apr 4 • 

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March 2025

On becoming an ancestor

Joyce packed the go-bags and shoved Lolly into her carrier, the poor cat no doubt mewling though I slept as the apocalypse neared and therefore can’t…

Mar 18 • 

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February 2025

Big tent party

and the altar of Walter

Feb 28 • 

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Out of one's tree

Stanley Elkin and me

Feb 14 • 

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January 2025

I kept forgetting to tell you

“Run me through that dream again,” Joyce said in a slow voice, looking directly at me.

Jan 30 • 

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Silver town ghost story

A hot day in Augusta, Georgia, summer of the year 2000.

Jan 17 • 

Randy Osborne

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Pop the hood please?

Exactly one year ago yesterday the stranger in the parking deck who came out to check on the crowd of people around his car did what we asked.

Jan 6 • 

Randy Osborne

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December 2024

50 shades

I was six years old when my parents split up.

Dec 30, 2024 • 

Randy Osborne

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