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Day 135: Too Much Time on My Hands

By Douglas | Published: January 10, 2008
Originally here. I’m really in my office. Thirty-four floors above the 16th Street Mall in downtown Denver, Colorado. I feel as if I am in a Polaroid from the 70′s. The blues faded, the reds indistinct, and the blacks turned a sickly green. The “Welcome Back Kotter” t-shirt I’m wearing is an iron-on and the [...]
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Day 131: Marrow’s Next Step

By Douglas | Published: January 6, 2008
Originally here. All posts with the marrow tag. I’m pressing the crescant to his neck and he’s saying words like magic. Words that feel like they could unbreak a jar, maybe raise the dead. “The best waters are swift and shallow.” He’s trembling as he chants, “The best waters are swift and shallow.” I realize [...]
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Day 125: A Son’s Father’s Love

By Douglas | Published: December 30, 2007
From Day 117: Conner’s Son’s Father Conner’s Son thought his father was foolish for leading them to this dilapidated oasis on the open prairie.  Surely the beast that tracked them would turn it’s attention here–even if he didn’t think they were that stupid.  A flock of crows startled at their unstealthy approach, rose like a [...]
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