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Cracked Stone Floors

Cracked Stone Floors

She obsessed over power plants. She didn’t care about the source — coal, wind, solar, nuclear, hydro, wave, geothermal, space age. She…
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Wikipedia: Lucian Michael Freud

Wikipedia: Lucian Michael Freud

Lucian Michael Freud (/ˈluː.si.ən ˈfrɔɪd/; 8 December 1922–20 July 2011) was a German-born British painter. Known chiefly for his thickly…
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Rules Are Rules Are Rules

Rules Are Rules Are Rules

He wrote in the wind, pages flapping, pen bleeding, wondering why he still does this. Today was particularly bad. Occasionally he’d go a…
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Playing for Keeps

Playing for Keeps

The first time she felt like an artist — as an unconscious decision — was when she noticed her coffee mugs were filthy. She realized: she…
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Caleb GarlingMar 31
Hell’s Kitchen

Hell’s Kitchen

“Oh! Excuse me!” She was new in the neighborhood.
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Caleb GarlingMar 30
Old Scalias

Old Scalias

“It broke off again yesterday, as I was walking out of a meeting.”
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Free Association

Free Association

It was crazy: every time I turned around — to do the dishes, grab a phone call, peer out the window at our weird neighbors, anything — my…
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Caleb GarlingMar 17
Scraps

Scraps

They wandered up from Bakersfield, wide-brimmed hats that were almost cowboy, a truck that was almost finished, playing that blues music…
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Caleb GarlingMar 10
My Pictures

My Pictures

She’d sent me this black and white picture of her in a long satin dress, laid out like a rose on the couch. I had no idea what to do with…
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Caleb GarlingMar 8
Silk Shorts

Silk Shorts

And in that thick sunset the city sighed, rejoiced, sang an anthem, basked in the memory that nothing is forever, there are so many more…
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Caleb GarlingMar 3
Seven of Hearts

Seven of Hearts

He found the seven of hearts under his cowboy boot, picked it up and noticed it smelled like perfume. His partner — their Mariachi duo had…
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Caleb GarlingFeb 25
Baja

Baja

The gas light came on about 90 miles from Ensenada. Stern Baja mountains escorted the truck east, through savage pastels, and neither…
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Caleb GarlingFeb 18
Cubed

Cubed

In front of me, tires screech. There is yelling. The tires screech again. The second time the sound comes from the intersection.
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Caleb GarlingFeb 11
Three Calls

Three Calls

On Armando’s second call to the pound that week he spoke with the regular attendant who said, “No, sorry Armando, we have not picked up any…
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Caleb GarlingJan 28
This Could Go All The Way To The Top

This Could Go All The Way To The Top

It was a dark and stormy night. I arrived at the crime scene to find a crowd surrounding the body.
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Caleb GarlingJan 7
Poolside

Poolside

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Caleb GarlingDec 18, 2015
Circle of Fifths

Circle of Fifths

In the photograph she has a little sideways smile. Her head is turned to the right, just a bit. You can tell that someone is standing to…
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Caleb GarlingNov 20, 2015
Later Diamond

Later Diamond

They called him “Diamond” and his wonderful horn “Domino” and no one remembered why, and he’d never tell, so it was perfect. At FlashJacks…
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Caleb GarlingNov 12, 2015
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