One skin-tight bite of this sweet tarty tomato cancels all dominion of the self. Tasting the flesh in this flesh one easily becomes translucent. Criss-crossing the tomato heart, brigades of sensations sensate my mouth. So what’s this shake-out between eating tomatoes and making love? This skin blushing red to a simple touch, this full fleshy […]
I I came to the city of Gold Creek in early May as the fitful spring winds were settling into early summer. The morning air was rife with the smell of lilac and the sound of lunatic birds tweeting and whistling from the huge oaks and maples that lined the streets of the finer residential
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If I had known I would’ve told you I’d been there too that it’s normal for people like us. That the fog will eventually burn off with time, fiction, and whiskey. We would’ve remembered Hemingway Van Gogh, Plath, and Wallace who fought the fine fight for the arts and died nobly— which would’ve been the
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Imagine living a life at sea. Not in the romantic way of cruising from island to island in the Caribbean aboard a gleaming vessel. Instead, you live aboard a homemade raft, constructed of materials found floating in the water. Imagine being born on such a raft, growing up on it, and spending years fishing from
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Another busy weekday morning comes. I rush to get the kids ready for school, reviewing my mental checklist for the day. I feel the pressure to get all my tasks done without making any crucial errors. I pull out of the driveway to head for school with my children finally in the car, panicked from
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