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Munchen, Minnesota
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Writing Without Hiding
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“I am sorry, sir,” she said. “We are completely booked. I am happy to make some phone calls –”
“But it’s high season!” I said. “Everywhere’s booked!”
“Perhaps someone made a cancellation.”
“It’s the snowiest January on the East Coast since 1977,” I said. “No one’s canceling.”
It was still dark out when Brother Phap Vien woke at 5:15 a.m. for seated meditation. Still night, really. Fingers freezing, he shrugged on his brown robes and his brown hooded sweatshirt. Outside his room, in the pre-dawn, other figures moved around him. Slow shadows, barely visible in the dark. Their shapes were all the […]
The pink balloon exploded against the corkboard, a dart vibrating in the space that had been its center. Bruno stared, stunned. Had he really hit the balloon? It had been his fifth and final try, and he’d all but given up hope. The man running the booth glanced up, then returned to counting dollar bills. […]
I had a crush on my older sister the first time I saw her. I know it’s creepy. But creepy is relative when you consider that I had to cut her from my father’s stomach along with four of my other siblings. So if there’s a real perv in this story, it’s Dad, not me. […]