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A Dark Hole in the Forest Full of Bluegills
I have liked remembering almost as much as I have liked living. - William Maxwell The blue is backed by blue then backed by blue. Above the mountain…
Jun 2
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May 2023
Dame's Rocket
In my part of Pennsylvania, the Dame’s Rocket is out. On various roads/ I zip by small waves of it on rolling hillsides/ the whites and the pinks and…
May 26
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Tell Me How I'm Doing?
Hey there. Hope all is well with you, readerfriend. So, this week I messed up and hit the publish button on a piece I had just written, By the time I…
May 19
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All the Dead Return to Us as Vultures in the Sky
We see a hearse; we think sorrow. We see a grave; we think despair. We hear of a death; we think of a loss. Not so in heaven. When heaven sees a…
May 17
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With Angels & Dark Angels
By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp. - Cormac McCarthy Saturday morning I woke up early to get ready for the…
May 12
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Jet Pack Solitude: Mini Essays from Thunder Pie
Puny Runts. Kids around Piper and Charlie’s age of 8 or 9, they fascinate me. A lot of times they have, like, chicken legs for arms. It’s as if they…
May 5
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April 2023
Fish & Chips
(a Replay Essay from Thunder Pie/ 2017)
Apr 28
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Always Running Like Robert Frost
We love the things we love for what they are. - Robert Frost Always running. Always hustling. To schools. To jobs. Always running to the supermarket for…
Apr 21
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Eggplant Parm in a Strip Mall
“I despise formal restaurants. I find all of that formality to be very base and vile. I would much rather eat potato chips on the sidewalk.” —Werner…
Apr 14
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Borrowed Fire / You Should Pay Me Back
If you practice writing constantly, you can start to speak in poetry form and so whenever you feel like writing something, all you have to do is…
Apr 7
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Serge Bielanko
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March 2023
Things We Told Ourselves
“Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.” -M. Esther Harding What remains are the remnants of a bird. It is evaporated more or less. There are a few…
Mar 31
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Tender & Choppy Goes the Kid Piss Memoir
In the hallway outside the bathroom, where it’s mostly dark, I almost fall over a pile of kid piss blankets. I guess Arle put them there when she was…
Mar 24
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