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Forsooth Sayer

Posted on February 1, 2022 by admin

Harry made suggestive gestures around the voluptuous crystal ball. Eyes rolled back into his head, he chanted words that could have been Arabic, he even invoked Allah, with a smattering of Hebrew he recalled from a Bar Mitzvah, but most … Continue reading →

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Mistaken Identities

Posted on November 17, 2021 by admin

The faded remnants of the 14th Brooklyn marched across a freshly harvested cornfield, the dried stalks stabbing at their legs.  Beetles and aphids, stink bugs and mosquitoes, rose from the rotting husks. And dust. Dust lifted with every step, covering … Continue reading →

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Obsession

Posted on August 23, 2021 by admin

I sat on a bench, the sort that’s attached to a redwood picnic table, facing outwards to a shorn field that served as the town’s off-leash dog park. I threw a tennis ball, a Penn, with a ball tosser, something … Continue reading →

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Metal Detectorists: The Thrill Is In The Discovery

Posted on July 8, 2021 by admin

← Pic Of The Day #1541 From Dan Woog’s column, https://06880danwoog.com/2021/07/08/metal-detectorists-the-thrill-is-in-the-discovery/ Posted on July 8, 2021 | 4 Comments Just when I think I’ve heard everything about Westport history, I learn something new. The other day, it was about a Confederate presence here in … Continue reading →

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When Jews Roll Up Their Sleeves

Posted on June 18, 2021 by admin

A very few years ago, an Iranian official close to the then Supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei claimed that Jews were using magic against the Islamic Republic. He said that Jews have the greatest sources of sorcery and make use of … Continue reading →

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Admissions Process

Posted on April 14, 2021 by admin

            It was not as if the boy’s pleas were falling on deaf ears, not at all. Henry Munroe heard him loud and clear, his impatience growing each time the child asked. Was he oblivious? If a teacher meant no, … Continue reading →

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Pursuit of Knowledge

Posted on March 18, 2021 by admin

Marshall arrived earlier than needed to the lecture hall and waited in the back, near the one entrance.  He leaned casually, in a studied manner, against the door scribbling in his open notebook.  Every other second, he looked up as … 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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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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