Tag: nostalgia
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Bathyscaphe
Here it is once again – the most ungodly week on the calendar! I must confess I greet this festival each time with increasing wonder – like by whose permission am I still here? This is a special one, though: it’ll surely be the smallest, and for the first time I go into it with…
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Birdie
It’s time I returned to the archives for another short story. Here’s a favorite… Birdie? Yes, I knew Birdie. The third house from the end, on our side of the street; that’s where Birdie lived, and had lived ever since I could remember. He was a part of my growing up, someone I either met,…
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Young at Heart
Charles Aznavour has died. Curiously, when I type his name here Spellcheck underlines it: Spellcheck has never heard of him. Yet when I type ‘Sinatra’ it raises no objection. And this is strange because through European eyes Aznavour’s diminutive 5ft 2inches frame was the embodiment of Sinatra, Bennet, Martin and even a little bit of…
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