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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 [...]
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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 if you do or [...]
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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 invited a cop [...]
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