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Micro-Fiction, Wilson NJ
“Mark’s Neighbors”
They hadn’t really shaken off the courtroom yet as they drove down one of New Jersey’s last remaining ‘back-roads’.
There’s a strange lasting feeling of uneasiness you get when you spend the day going through the motions of a process that isn’t your own. Rebecca’s high heels lay under the passenger seat and her husband’s tie was undone and sitting sloppily on his neck. She looked out the widow as he drove, seeing what she could of the cornfields in the thick darkness. He had forced her to move out here and for someone who grew up in New York, it’s silence that makes your hair stand up. -
Micro-Fiction
“The Couch”
God, he hated owing her. Maybe that’s part of the problem, Sam thought as he ascended the stairs to her apartment. It was midnight and she had to work the next morning which made his intrusion more of a put-out, which made his debt that much greater. The small amount of wine he drank with […]
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Late Night Musings
The Levels of Madness
Lest the Europeans accuse us of being boring or the Arabs accuse us of being fundamentally moderate, the Polygamists, a Mormon sect that’s as American as apple pie, are in the news again. This time not because one of their buggy-eyed leaders has been arrested, but because their women and children have been taken from […]
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Micro-Fiction
“Rachel’s Mom”
Rachel was as nervous leaving them alone as John was uncomfortable being left alone. He had been nervous to begin with by his future Mother In-Law’s almost unannounced visit, but sitting alone with Roberta From Astoria on his small Florida porch with the broken window was worse than anything he could’ve imagined earlier. She had […]
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Micro-Fiction
“Tiny Spaces”
They say, or at least John had read, that a marriage works best when each spouse has their own “space”. But as the inspiration behind his own nuptials was a pregnancy, one which–at the time–the two high school graduates were unprepared for and, also, having spent the first tens years of married life in living […]
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Late Night Musings
Why I’m against Gay Marriage.
03.17.08 | Permalink | 10 Comments“Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?”–H.L. Mencken
As we get closer and closer to our actual election, we are concurrently getting closer and closer to the resumption of the ‘Culture War’ and, likewise, the resumption of the ‘Defense of Marriage’. Well, in light of such fortifications, I think […] -
Micro-Fiction, Wilson NJ
“The Greenest Grass”
It was a brand new house. With the changing needs and wants of former city dwellers, it became easier to tear down Wilson, New Jersey’s McMansions and build new ones, rather than resell old ones once their former inhabitants went looking for upgrades. The grass was also brand new and it’s smell seeped in through […]
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