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I Love You So Bad It Hurts – Mike’s Musical Monday
Love is wonderful. All things considered, it’s the most wonderful thing there is. But it has a downside. You can fall in love with someone who doesn’t love you back, or is an asshole, or who dies on you and leaves you all alone with your love. You can fall in love with someone who… Read more
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Blue – Fictional Humans of New York (FHONY) #10
There were three of them and they were all good kids. Funny how time changes things. Only one of them would make it all the way to adulthood without losing his goodness. His name was Wes but everyone called him Blue because of the way he held his breath when he didn’t get his way.… Read more
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Death
Death is just another oneOf those thingsLike air and pop musicThat cannot be avoided Sleep doesn’t replicate deathAny more than it answers the question:Why am I so tired? When I was just a boyAnswers weren’t just availableThey also made perfect sense And love was the easiest one of them allBecause it answered everythingEven death Read more
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The Furthest Adventures of Joe & Skirl – Flash Fiction Friday
Her cheeks were enough to give an atheist pause for thought. Could anything that wasn’t divine produce such things? Of course, Joe’s rational mind told him; of course the deliberate force of evolution could fashion the perfect roundness and softness of Victoria’s cheeks. But his heart was not convinced. His heart believed she’d come straight… Read more
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Catskill Sketchbook
Bell on the deck The Catskill Mountains are a magic place. Washington Irving’s famous tale Rip Van Winkle begins this way: “Whoever has made a voyage up the Hudson must remember the Catskill Mountains. They are a dismembered branch of the great Appalachian family, and are seen away to the west of the river, swelling… Read more
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Girl – Mike’s Musical Monday
I may be a little long in the tooth to be singing about a “girl” without coming off creepy but I couldn’t resist taking a crack at this bit of genius songwriting from my favorite band, The Beatles. Don’t we all know a girl, or a woman (or a boy, or a man, for that… Read more
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