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Puzzle Pieces

I scribble some words onto my hand as she practices a cantata from Après un rêve in her bedroom. “Who’s there?” She calls out. I put the pen and paper into my pocket and...

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Broken Record

There’s almost no way to make someone understand what it means to beat your high school’s hundred-meter sprint record. It’s like trying to explain color to a blind person. But I’ll do my best:...

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A Guide to Winter Driving – Part One

Short Fiction   Tony had never understood the appeal that so many others found in North Dakota.  He wasn’t an idiot – he could see the cop-out metaphors about the wide-open spaces representing freedom,...