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Blue-Gray Days
Down to the Olde Port Market Written November 2009 I moved to this town many years ago, because the blue fog combined itself with the false impression of infinity that an ocean can provide if only an...
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Rebello’s Advice On Getting Published
Snoozie's Trattoria Johnnie Rebello sat farting into the vinyl-covered corner booth cushion of Snoozie’s Trattoria. Dark-green upholstery, table top made of scarred railway ties, web-wrapped...
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Bald Man In A Barber Shop
Just Trim A Little Off The Sides On a bright yellow morning in December of 1963 God taught me the reason a bald man needs a haircut, the fact that Jackie Kennedy didn’t care who shot her husband, and...
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I Am An Ordinary Man
I am an ordinary man who owns extraordinary tastes in literature. Plah, plah. Proust and Updike live on my bookshelves, and yes, I’ve read them. Updike every word several times over. Proust now and...
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Gladiolas, Part I
This story isn’t about me, although I have a kind of curiosity inside my personality that my friends tell me I had even when I was a little boy. And that’s what this story is about, really. Little...
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Prologue To A Book Never To Be Written
Happy, Happy Family! For about ten years, spanning the last decade of the twentieth century, I visited numerous branches of local libraries, and browsed the shelves of many used-book stores — close to...
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