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When you’re texting “keep em coming” to your close friend, the last thing you want is for autocorrect to change “em” to “me.” There is a marked difference between the meaning of those two phrases.

Mar 1st

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things to know about the people parked along the...

Over the last year, I wrote a series of 20 stories called things to know about the people parked along the road that runs through Humboldt Park. Today, I woke up to an actual news story saying Body Found In Humboldt Park. It was found in a parked car. Guess that means the final chapter (part 21) has been written for me. I’m not happy for it, but I guess I’m relieved?

Feb 23rd

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Canary House

There were no cameras, no film crew, no audiences or air time. Nobody noticed except us. At the start, the canary house was so full of junk that the two people inside seemed trapped in the La-Z-Boy chairs that were both web and spider, tacking them in and filling them with venom. The people never seemed to move. Days and weeks held a Sumo match. The winner went on to wrestle years. And in...

Feb 23rd

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Writing better: vague "suggestions" from William...

Continue work… Study the masters… Do deliberate exercises… Regularly enter notes…sharpen that peculiar and forgetful eye… Take to sketching…details…exactitude… Become steeped in history… …the better word…the better word…the better word… Figure it will be five years before any… Wait… From In the Heart of the Heart of the Country

Feb 22nd

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brewer words were never spoken: THE BALLAD OF... →

I am a happy booze runner, with a production line, I’ve set the town of Boozledon awash with beer and wine. For years 1 have been brewing, it always was tax free, Though it wasn’t really legal ‘till the year of ‘63. We brew it by the dustbin, and drink it by the pail. You name it and we’ll make it, lager, stout or ale. If our stocks are running low, somebody will shout, “Let’s have a drop...

Feb 22nd

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