Month: June 2026
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the half inch
in the back of the hardware storepast the brass hingesthere is a bin of magnetsthe flat round kindtwo to a cardfor cabinet doorsthat won’t stay shuti picked one upturned it overreading the nothingprinted on the backand the other onestill in the binmovedbarelyjust leanedthe way a thing leanswhen it has alreadymade up its mindi never touched…
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The Coldest Spielberg
I made a pact with myself (a post from 22 years ago) in a dark living room a long time ago, right around the time the bicycle in E.T. left the ground. Any film Spielberg makes, I watch it first day. With Jurassic Park I renewed the pact and Schindler’s List made it permanent. I…
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individuum – a long short story
listen to the audio version on YouTube I count. That is my confession and my boast. Take both before we go a step further, because the rest of this is the story of the one afternoon I did not, and to this very hour cannot. You should hear it from me and not from the…
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Your Call Is Important to Us
Last winter I spent fifty-one minutes on the phone with an insurance company, and I would like those minutes back, although I understand the request will be routed to a department that does not exist. Forty-three of the fifty-one were hold. The other eight were spent talking to a man named, he said, Brandon, who…
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Never Mind, I Changed It
In the mid-nineties I had a college course on macroeconomics that required me to read a small book of about two hundred and thirty pages, a task I dispatched with the enthusiasm that’s reserved only for useful things like cleaning behind a fridge. What I did instead, with what now strikes me as faintly ridiculous…
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