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Why I Hate Straws

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

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Hookmouth

Chapter 1

Jim Slade discovered the giant bass he called Hookmouth late one
evening in July. It was one of the long, hot summer days he loved. No school, chores all done by noon, and the rest of the day was his to do with as he liked. On rainy days he went over to his cousin

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