Tag: books
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Celebratory Snack
A woman had just come through the revolving door and was confronted with “the Turtle Problem”. She caught the attention of a nearby teller, who noticed the predicament she was in and rushed to her aid. “I am rushing to your aid!” he said. He said it just like that, too. Just like that. The…
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My Father, the Robot
Father was wearing an apron and serving salmon to us, taking the fillets off the grill and placing them on a wooden board and bringing the board into the kitchen, setting it down at the center of the dining room table. I was sitting on one side, stepmother was sitting on one side, and my…
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Soup and a Shave
And when he picked up the scepter from its roost, and when everyone around him was finished laughing at his ineptitude he had advertised on full display the day before, he came online again, set down the remote control and the voice box and the headset, and walked into the bathroom. The bathroom, where he…
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Bottom of the Well
It did not matter how I fell to the bottom of the well, what mattered was how I was to survive the ensuing days until I would hopefully be rescued. I had sent a carrier pigeon to the last of my remaining relatives, and I knew that I could trust the carrier pigeon. He had…
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Don’t Try to Measure the Ground from Here
It’s a sordid affair, but it’s the truth that when two opposing forces face each other, gather momentum, and then collide, glass is splintered everywhere and no one goes away unscathed. That much is true. That’s some sort of law from where I stand – law of motion, law of mass, whatever you want to…
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Take it Down a Few Pegs, Son
My old man would always tell me a specific phrase whenever I was acting up. Whenever I was shooting off my mouth, whenever I was growing hot underneath the collar, whenever I was itching for a fight that was clearly not mine to win. Whenever I would get into these states – and it was…
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Coffee Table Low
Cat go into living room, cat see sandwich on plate. Plate with sandwich down low on coffee table, coffee table so low to ground. Coffee table so very low to ground. Way, way too low. Far too low. Enough for me and the dog and the other cat and the whole infantry to pounce on…
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The Ganymede Bathhouse
The radio was turned down when he entered the bathhouse, and he recalled the fact that it had been at a roaring volume when he had left the bathhouse nearly an hour ago. He also recalled the fact that when he had left, the radio had been playing quick and bombastic classical tunes. Now, the…
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Summoning Poem
The burnt-up enemy of every disaster Is found at the bottom of the bottle, Surrounded by sand. The sand is at the bottom of the glass bottle, And still there are select grains on the mouth of the bottle. The bottle is Heaven-sent. It is naturally color-less, And still it keeps its form and refuses…
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