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A woman from England wrote me with questions about my book. This in itself was suspicious. From the internet most either want money, validation, or directions to the bathroom. She […]

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I went to the Tate Gallery sometime in the 1980s when I was in London with Blue Rodeo. I don’t remember exactly what year it was. Touring has a way […]

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Mustafa, the Lyft driver, told me he was from Turkey. We were moving through the city inside the temporary confessional space that Ubers and Lyfts become. Strangers exchange opinions they […]

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This realization did not depress him, oddly it was relief. For decades he carried the burden of defending an imaginary permanent self while simultaneously trying to create permanent significance through […]

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As they left the diner, one of them paused beneath the neon sign and said, “You know, if God exists, I suspect He has a strange relationship with unresolved dissonance.” […]

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Fave part of the open stage was the woman all dressed in black, never played here before, took the stage and introduced her first song in a gentle kind voice, […]

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The cricket spent its brief existence attending to practical matters. Finding shelter beneath the porch boards. Interpreting vibrations through its tiny body. Then one summer evening it encountered something entirely […]

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The robot’s designation was AURORA-7, though after several months alone in transit it began referring to itself privately as Rory. Its mission parameters were straightforward enough. Travel to Mars. Oversee […]

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The drummer had been trying to learn meditation for nearly two years. He owned several books on mindfulness, subscribed briefly to an app featuring reassuring voices from California, and attended […]

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I was very pleased with the salad. Chickpeas, which I soaked and later boiled, with mint, parsley, apple, currants, red onion and cinnamon, turmeric, berbre, salt, white pepper, olive oil, […]