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A fog from a fire and the fog of arrogance and the fog of incompetence and …

I love fog. I’ve got fog, but I don’t love this fog. This fog is the devil spawn of fire. Smoke, shoved west from its forest home by flames a-billion,…

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September 12, 2020
fiction, Life, relationships, Uncategorized, writing

Something Quirky and Gothic, Just for You

Happy over here to celebrate the appearance of my story “Wisdom & Co.” among a host of other fine fictions at The Short Story site. It’s a lean, clean temple…

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July 7, 2025
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Close encounters of the marvelous kind

When the world gives you rain, it also gives you museums. Who wants to be inside when the weather is glorious, no matter how glorious the weather inside? The interior…

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April 18, 2019

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    Waiting on a shaky premise for the garbage man to come

    chiselch / December 31, 2015 / 0 Comments

    Streaks of apricot light dance above the eastern horizon, a band plays somewhere down below, and fireworks pock the Oaxaca dawn as I haul the garbage can down free-form concrete pavement one block…

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