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It Wasn’t A Coffin

Posted on November 19, 2020 by admin

It wasn’t a coffin. For starters, it was metal and vertical; coffins are made of wood and lay horizontally. He knew that much. And coffins didn’t have slats at eye level, presumably for airing out sweaty gym gear, or hooks … Continue reading →

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Today I Am A Man

Posted on November 13, 2020 by admin

Jay Hyman cringed beneath the Ark. His eyes were lowered in what could have been mistaken for an effort to hide emotion, tears. Indeed, many watching smiled at that; it was a big day for Jay.  The cringe, however, was … Continue reading →

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Wilce’s Dream

Posted on October 18, 2020 by admin

At the persistence of his father, Cliff Skinner, his mother attempted a breathing technique to slow her labor enough to push her soon-to-be-born baby out at midnight. Clifford had heard that the first child of the new year would get … Continue reading →

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What I Don’t Miss About Work

Posted on September 13, 2020 by admin

In the realm of financial services there is an array of exams one needs to pass, starting with the word “series” and followed by what seems an infinite number though, oddly, start with, like, a Series 3, skips to Series … Continue reading →

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The Old Clock Stopped

Posted on July 30, 2020 by admin

The old clock stopped.   The mirror it had faced for most of its life reflected a blotchy 6:32. It stopped there like the final date on a gravestone.  Its brass pendulum dangled dormant below the face.  It was new on … Continue reading →

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A Hiking Trip

Posted on June 3, 2020 by admin

Hiking alone? At 4,000-something feet? In October?  Honestly?  Stupid, stupid and stupider.   Insight comes at the wrong time, Frank thought, and it hit him that that was insight itself.  He managed to laugh a little, and imagined a smile on … Continue reading →

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Di-a-tomaceous Death

Posted on May 13, 2020 by admin

Tommy Fitzgerald sat stiffly in his truck, toying with a stale Marlboro he kept in reserve in the clean ashtray, a deliberate temptation to prove he didn’t have to smoke anymore. It was the last one and so long to … Continue reading →

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The Last Job That Piqued My Interest

Posted on April 18, 2020 by admin

I won’t kid you but there are downs to the ups of retiring in material comfort.  There is, for example, the tendency to see more frequent, more dire, health issues and if not with you than certainly with people you … Continue reading →

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A Good Friday Baptism

Posted on April 11, 2020 by admin

(This is entirely a true story!) It was a brisk day compared with recent days that early April.  The wind was blowing too, taking with it any warmth that lingered off a body.  Still it was a good Friday, a … Continue reading →

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Apocalypse Now?

Posted on April 2, 2020 by admin

(Before I really begin this, I thought I’d mention something about the title. That, of course, comes from the 1979 movie. Well I saw that movie in Cambridge, Mass, the summer just before my senior year, with Jay Pollard, who … Continue reading →

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