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Brain Drool

By Douglas | Published: May 4, 2009
I reread books because I have a poor memory for the details but a great one for the experience. When I reread I’m never surprised or left wondering, but I am returned to the emotional territory of surprise and wonder.
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Big Green Square Weekend

By Douglas | Published: January 17, 2009
This monstrous pastry sported four ice-cream cone towers, iced rosebuds on delicate vines, chocolate candy rocks, and home-made frosting. And the idiots bragged on how nice my foam core cut-out swords looked.
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A Title So Dull Even Reverse Psychology Won’t Get You to Read On

By Douglas | Published: October 20, 2008
I’d hoped to be back writing short pieces of truncated scenes this morning as I normally do, but I’ve gotten a late start due to an early start.Maybe some sort of weekend recapitulation is in order. Our house is clean this morning.  Last week while cleaning resilient wads of red hair from the rollers of our [...]
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This is Olsen My Homophobic Friend

By Douglas | Published: July 7, 2008
“Go the back way; through Langston.” Olsen requested. I nearly always do. “So. You know how I refuse to wear a condom?” he goes on to ask. I dump the Chevy off 35 and float through the stop sign onto 33 headed east. “I know you claim to refuse. Never heard [...]
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Flight Lessons?

By Douglas | Published: July 1, 2008
When I was much younger, still a boy in Scouts, our Scoutmaster took us out to a local airfield to get our Flying merit badge. This kind of thing was his thing. He brought rattlesnakes to our church basement meeting room and set them free on the floor among us boys. He [...]
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Disconnectivity is Probably Not a Word

By Douglas | Published: June 12, 2008
Ahead of any of the rest of this I should thank those of you that read 1000 Days.  I appreciate the lot of you silent as you are about your participation.  Also, a big shoutout to you robots combing the Internet for RSS feeds: thanks for stopping by. The theme of concern resolving from those that [...]
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