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Eternal Love
Today the million-year-old man is celebrating his last birthday. His wife of two thousand years has prepared him a carrot cake with just a hundred candle. They are not …
Lessons Learned from Dewayne Palmer’s Van
On the rare occasion I actually see one, I can point out a 1978 Ford E350 Quadravan without hesitation. I spent a good chunk of the first eighteen years …
28 Ways to Look at Illness
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Illness as Ace of Spades
When Jill is sick, nothing else matters. Nothing else comes close. Career, vacation, …
Men at Work
Van, an obstetrician
Eventually, new nurses and interns broach the subject of starting respiration with the father’s breath, not my slap on the bottom. “Yes,” I always say, “and …
Stabs at Happiness
Online chase yields a thin Asian indie-type boy, 23, more and more beautiful the longer Nikki stares at the pixilated blank face. He goes by Taj but when they …
Beauty
Three
A few months later, queuing for cinema tickets with her new boyfriend, she sees him. He’s walking down the street – headphones on, eyes down, click-clacking a Zippo. …
Eternal City
In the same way that a lamb, fed a fat diet of seeds and stems, can grow larger, and thicker, and eventually become another thing entirely—a sheep—power is simply …
Killing the Days
Hi dad.
Chris. I’m so glad you’re there.
I’m always here dad.
This neighbor. I mean my neighbor’s son. He killed himself.
Oh that’s awful.
He was your age …
Chinchillas in the Air
“Each smell has a story,” he says then tells me of a special odor he’s kept for years, high up on his shoulder blade. “This one’s special. My lover …
Veils and Elephants.
Like every Sunday lunch before, Claudia was late. She was not crazy late, but late enough for me to recall those Sundays. Her elastic time sense was never a …
