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My Pain Is Worse Than Your Pain

I like my wife fine and we had a pretty smooth run of it over the years but there was a sort of — oh, what do I want to say…

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Mermaid Fever

The mermaid washed up on our public beach in the early morning of June 19, at approximately 4:30 a.m., according to the most reliable estimates. At 5:06 a.m. the body…

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The Dreaming Jaw, The Salivating Ear

I do not think I shall visit my blog anymore. It is not so much the smell that discourages me—gulls have skeletonized the corpse in the entranceway, and the lapping tide…

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Wait till you see me dance

I know when people will die. I meet them, I can look into their faces and see if they have long to last. It’s like having a knack for math…

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