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If you ever get three or four laughing you weren’t soon to forget it

Woman in rose dress

The world of cheese

The Santosbrazzi Killer

My trip of January 17—one of my monthly visitations to a Cincinnati-based subsidiary research outfit, during which I spend two days observing the general activities of the subsidiary outfit, filling…

White-Bread Jesus

by Robert Coover,

When that bully Cavanaugh rises in the middle of the opening prayer like a self-righteous Sadducee, shouldered round by all his fawning scribes and elders, to silence Reverend Wesley Edwards…

The Botch

by David Means,

The idea is to tap into the old traditions, guns waving, eyes behind balaclavas—just one more bank heist breaking the tedium of an Ohio afternoon, leaving nothing but bewilderment, the…

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If you ever get three or four laughing you weren’t soon to forget it

Woman in rose dress

The world of cheese

The Santosbrazzi Killer

White-Bread Jesus

The Botch

Passing on

Breath

Trouble

Writing

Haiku

Paris morning

Party

Northstar

Message

Automatic

Giblets

Home from college

War stories

Fat liver

AT&T

Thirteen

Divorce

Rain

Willows Village

Jack

The case of the severed hand

Suicide by fitness center

The next thing

Twenty-two stories

March 2009

Debug