Tag: living
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Strings
Melissa: This story stands on its own, but readers might be interested in my first encounter with Melissa, which can be found in story-form here, Melissa arches her back, stretching bare flesh against the quilting of her lounger, the better to observe a frisbee player on the beach. “He’s quite the Greek, isn’t he?”…
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Home Life
It’s here again. Morning darkness engaged in battle with a weakening sun and winning, little by little; the sycamore branch that scratches at my window in the gale, peevishly demanding the return of its clothes. A dog with ears pinned back against the roar, a helpless waste bin, lid flapping in panic, bowling by. …
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Mission Creep
If I only learn one thing this year, it will be this: in the mind of its author, a book is never perfect. When I decided to serialize ‘Hallbury Summer’ in this blog through the Summer and Autumn, my plan was to break up the chapters of a book I had already written and published…
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