Category: Writing
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Past and Future Soup
Reading this NYT review of William Gibson’s Distrust That Particular Flavor was like meeting a like-minded stranger on the subway. You don’t ever think you’ll run into them again, but you get a warm glow knowing there are people out there who are on the same trip you are, and see things in generally (if…
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Buttonholes (a story opener)
[Sometimes I write the beginnings of stories, without really planning to end them. This is that kind of a beginning.] — There are people who are born at a place and time which rubs up against another place and time in the unseen folds of the universe. If you have ever felt a strong nostalgic…
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Zeitghost, Part 3
(Part 1 and Part 2) Fog rolling off the river obscured what Max might have seen through the windows of the cab. He could only just make out the Brooklyn Bridge — a gray, solid mass suspended above them. The driver rolled to a stop at the end of an empty street. Wordlessly, Max got…
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Fairy Story
ACT I: “Come away with me, my love, come away with me and be my bride.” “I can’t love you, because I am a fairy and have no soul.” “Then take a piece of mine.” “This piece of soul is too big for me. I’ll grow into it by tomorrow night — come back then,…
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Zeitghost, Part 2 (for Libby)
(Part 1 is here.) Max was unsurprised when he was separated from his group the next day. Their travels around the city had been noticeably uneventful. He had watched traffic close around them, doors shut in their face, and restaurants refuse to seat such a large class, and he knew that the city wasn’t favoring…