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  • briseadh

    bad dream last night... defeat The boardwalk is almost completely empty. If I look as far as I can see east, then west, perhaps I can spot three solitary figures as tiny silhouettes against the grey December sky. S…

  • sneachta

    ah winter... silent night From the windows that faced South Oxford Street I could see the clock at the top of the Williamsburgh Bank Building, grey in the daylight and glowing in the night. My lighthouse in the hear…

  • ...an earlier version of this was a "twenty-minute fiction" assignment in a writing group. It was rewritten and almost became one of the short pieces - what a friend called the "Greek Chorus" parts - of The Drool Room -…

  • I wrote this for a young friend three years ago, transporting a bit of personal experience to a place he would know... I re-run it today because, crazy, busy, behind, but want to stay in touch... Staying Out of Trou…

  • Sorry to be momentarily out of touch, but I'm back, and I'll visit and link later today... Learning foghlaim "Coach, you gotta see this guy swim. He's faster than all of us." It was early September and I stood on …

  • the next day's thoughts... A River Runs Through It I stand in the Winter Garden looking down. My back toward the grand stairs and the vast room and the palm trees and the mirror-like polish on the floor and t…

  • A re-run - re-write on a frantic weekend... Safety for Boys "Do you even know what "safe" means?" The question is necessarily blunt, which is probably essential, but I don't answer, and minutes of silence tic…

  • 21 years ago this summer... ( a slight re-write as I continue polishing a few pieces) Taxi Service The radio asked us to "ten-one the house," so we stopped at the diner and I used the phone to call in. It wa…

  • Friday re-run on PTSD: Exhausted from being up all night, The Collected Essays of Me Harassing Educators prepared in print and web forms for an October conference. A conversation on Ireland's new number one Breakfast Sho…

  • I have a thousand things that need to be done in the next few days... I will be around if I can. In the meantime hears a re-write of an old piece, in response to a memory from Doug Riddiger... History stair Wh…

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