Ten Years
Nov 02, 2026

They were coming up on the tenth anniversary of their father’s death, and the two sisters were talking on the phone about how to commemorate his passing. “I think we should all go out to that place on river where…

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Genuine Power
Nov 02, 2026

We HAVE to be able to......laugh at ourselves, I mean. If we cannot, we are lost.,,,,lost in a sea of drowning self-importance. Laughter clears the cobwebs, wipes away the crushed bugs that have dared to die right on the window…

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The List of Things I Do Not Know
Oct 30, 2026

I do not know when I will vote; I know that I will vote. [I intend to go in person; I want to look anyone who’d restrict anyone else’s Constitutional rights right in the eye as I cast my ballot.]…

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The List of Things I Do Not Know
Oct 30, 2026

1. How to sky dive 2.Why anyone would want to sky dive 3.How to ride a bucking bronco 4.Why anyone would want to ride a bucking bronco 5.One good reason to vote for Trump 6.Why anyone would ever vote for…

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We Cannot Stop.
Oct 29, 2026

"Let's put our hands together & make noise for Mustang Mama!--Here to represent Abraham Lincoln High School--Let's hear it for Mustang Mama!" She walked daintily on stage, all two hundred pounds of her, her raven hair sparklinging with red &…

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Haven’t Heard A Word…
Oct 29, 2026

Haven't heard a word from you for more than an age. The last time I saw you, your boss told me to get the hell out & a few minutes later you walked out onto the front patio where I…

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To Forget The Deeds of Your Enemies.
Oct 29, 2026

[Backstory: Vince is a 10th grade high school student in a San francisco public high school. At home, he copesHe with violence from his drug-dependent mother. So far & we've seen him at home, in his classes, at his storefront…

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A Whirlwind, A Tornado, A Tsunami
Oct 29, 2026

The human body.....a machine far more complex than we may ever be able to clearly know or thoroughly understand.....it records every moment we are conscious as well as every single instant moment we are not....it records everything...i could compare it…

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Unpredictable (partial scene from draft of novel titled MESSY)
Oct 29, 2026

[Context: 2004. San Francisco. Two former lovers in a café, sparring over a potential business deal to make a game for the rudimentary cell phone. Katerina runs a wildly successful soft porn website for women featuring men in various stages…

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There’s No Telling
Oct 28, 2026

Who ever, ever thought I'd end up in rural Michigan? Where cows are as near to neighbors as actual humans are, and the nights are filled with faint birdsong and faraway trains whistles? Like out of a peaceful scene in…

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Fortune Teller
Oct 27, 2026

Life was not going very well for Gregory Ames. He was maxed out on his credit cards and had just been diagnosed with…well there was something wrong with his prostate and all he could remember the doctor saying was that…

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Could She Forgive?
Oct 27, 2026

She'd considered him an enemy ,even as she couldn't quite put her finger on why she felt that way about him, and even as she introduced him to her best friend, but Milton was so lonely, and her match-making instincts…

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