She grappled heavily with the notion of going to a pawn shop, of bringing them a minuscule emerald her ex-husband had taken… Read more A Guy De Maupassant Experience
She grappled heavily with the notion of going to a pawn shop, of bringing them a minuscule emerald her ex-husband had taken… Read more A Guy De Maupassant Experience
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I died again in Dublin. It was the land of his heritage, a fact I couldn’t ignore when the cab… Read more Yeats Is On Your Side
Jan became a cab driver after a failed attempt at using his inheritance to open up his own canal tours… Read more Coffeeshop
I just want the beginnings. The middle makes you start to realize that the sheen and shine of the beginning… Read more The Beginnings
When you “claim” to be a writer to people, they have this tendency to look you up and down with… Read more For A Writer, You Sure Are A Such and Such
It was almost annoyingly fitting to take the California Car Service to JFK for my flight to Los Angeles. The… Read more Comafornia®™