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An Accident

Well, I’ll tell you, whoever did this is gonna pay. I looked up at him. I did this. I know. But all I’m saying is that someone is gonna pay. That doesn’t make any sense. Who am I gonna pay? Myself? He smiled. Don’t you worry is all I’m saying. An ambulance wailed in the [...]

“That’s definitely biscuits and gravy, girl, definitely biscuits and gravy.” “Mardi Gras is a very dirty time. Drinkin’ and whores.”

Zeno’s Father

Zeno’s Father tried to tell him, standing in a pool of limpid moonlight, a word. A word that would explain, and would excuse his son from suffering, and allow him to see. But that word cannot be told. It is a snapping and firing, making manifest for a moment an understanding, on the cusp beyond [...]

Rabbits

The universe is trying to tell me something, and it’s trying to tell me with rabbits. Yesterday morning, Keiko and I were walking around our property when a small gray rabbit crossed our path and ran beneath a fence and into some brush. I was happy, because I’m always happy when I see rabbits around [...]

Katrina

“Once in great while, however, the right person is fortunate enough to get the right dog, to have the time to take care of it, to connect with it in a profound way. It takes a confluence of luck and timing, being at a particular point in life that coincides with the nature, breeding, and [...]