January 2012
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December 2011
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November 2011
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This woman in line says, “I’m not really a chicken salad person.”
Amanuensis
Erin: No way you can guess what I'm thinking.
Andrew: Let's see. Rosa Parks.
Erin: Close. Dead baby.
“If words get in the way of your story, you are in trouble. I believe you should...”
– Barry Hannah
September 2011
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Overshot happiness. First time in years.
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August 2011
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Diego is on about the heat. He says, “It gets hot like this and the black boys like to take off they shirts.” He says, “But the children,” and then nothing else. He looks through the wall. Gets this look. Points at me without looking and says, “My aunt Laura used to work at the Allegheny General Hospital.”
July 2011
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I sit next to a man at work whose job is to field questions from the media. All day long he says into the telephone, “I can’t answer that.”
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My friend used to have a job quality checking computer generated data for a big corporation. He did this everyday for four years. He says to me, “Guess how many times the computer has ever been wrong?” I feel this way today.
There is a woman in her back yard screaming, “Peekaboo.”
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Consultation
“What happens if you wake up?” he says. “I’ll be awake,” she says. “Don’t they put you out?” he says. “They stick you in the spine,” she says. ”I won’t feel anything.” “Will you be able to see it?” he says. “They put up a curtain type thing,” she says. The man puts four cubes of ice into his glass. “I mean...
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Cigarette Run
I wake up next to a woman and send her for cigarettes. Or I wake up and the woman goes for cigarettes without my asking. The woman wakes up and says, I’m going to have to keep Gary away for awhile, which I either reply, Get me some cigarettes, or, Cigarettes. I never hear from the woman again. She moves on. I’ll have to keep Gary away for awhile, are the last words this woman speaks before even...
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