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Louis Dumkowski was on the run again. This was something he always did when faced with a problem. When he owed Vinnie the Enforcer money that he couldn’t pay, he’d abandoned his apartment, changed his name, and moved to a different part of town. That hadn’t worked; Vinnie had found him and Continue reading Special Delivery – With Postage Due Louis Dumkowski hummed along with the nasal country song being played on the radio of the 18-wheeler in which he was riding. He was somewhere north of Texarkana, Arkansas, having been picked up south of St. Louis, Missouri, by Buck Tergen, the driver, who was on his way to Carthage, Texas with a load of Continue reading Rural Free Delivery Expect uproar in this excerpt from the novel Adrift in the Sound. The story takes place after the death of Greg, Marian’s boyfriend. The Dogs decide to honor Greg’s memory with a baseball game and challenge the Tuggers, a hard-swinging tugboat team from the docks. The Dogs are a ragtag tavern softball club, mostly drunks and potheads kicking around Seattle in the early 1970s. Lizette, Marian, and Sandy, the mother of baby Violet, live next door to the Dogs. They come along for the game and so do a couple of cops who’ve been tailing the Continue reading Long Ball A fond holiday memory. Well, a memory. Memorial Day. This was the day, over a decade ago, that I personally validated several of our very fine natural laws, mostly Isaac Newton’s. Memorial Day, 1995, Lake Secession, South Carolina. A blithely boisterous bonding of friends, food and frolic, punctuated by pork barbecue, parasailing, skiing, sun-bathing and volleyball. It being yet Continue reading Why I Hate Straws Call me Ishmael. I’ve always wanted to say that. My real name is Barry. But I’ve had others: you know, playground nicknames, pet names, mail merge screw-up names. I also get credit card offers in the mail addressed to Barry Parham III, which either means I’m missing a whole bunch of allowable tax deductions, or else Continue reading Mother of the Year(ling) Some very serious people visit Melinda and her mother, belinda, the local “massage therapist”. No one is quite sure what is going on, especially Melinda, who finds the serious people quite perplexing … and they find her mother equally perplexing. So, what is really going on here? We may never know Continue reading Miss Conception |
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Albert the Allegory muses on Global Warming
Well, I was down to the swamp an this allegory, least I think it were an allegory I know one got a skinnier nose than the other but you know what I mean… He climbed up out’n the water, looked me in the eye and commenced to tellin’ this story.
I figured I didn’t have nuthin
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