How most people in the publishing industry read
Wednesday 8/10/22 Let's walk through the process by which most people in the publishing industry read, using two metaphors. I'm talking...
Colin Fleming
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Many Moments More
- 21 hours ago
- 6 min
"My Great Grandfather's Ankle," short story excerpt
Wednesday 8/10/22 Remember how in school you’d have to write these essays about the person you most admired? You probably should have had...
- 21 hours ago
- 5 min
Excerpt from essay on the feature-length Peanuts film, Snoopy Come Home
Wednesday 8/10/22 Hard Truths Allowed The Upliftingly Melancholic Full-Length Peanuts Movie, Snoopy Come Home. In the set-apart suburbia...
- 22 hours ago
- 6 min
Beatles thoughts and considerations
Wednesday 8/10/22 * The reason I don't like Mark Lewisohn's writing is because he's not a writer. He's a historian. What he does is find...
- 22 hours ago
- 3 min
"The Best Person Who Ever Lived," short story excerpt
Wednesday 8/10/22 This kid in college had a huge crush on this hot girl, nursed for thirty percent of a decade. She was totally out of...
- 4 days ago
- 8 min
Sunshine and beads
Sunday 8/7/22 This is pretty typical of how people are, but still examples worth mentioning. In the first instance, we can see what...
- 5 days ago
- 5 min
Zulu refresher
Saturday 8/6/22 A putrid, mephitic sludge oozed from my workout shorts this morning. This is a rare occurrence. There has to be...
- 5 days ago
- 2 min
I am going to help you.
Saturday 8/6/22 Watch. "I just had a workout." "I am going to work out." That's how that works. "I can't do this anymore." "I can't eat...
- Aug 2
- 2 min
Bright pink
Tuesday 8/2/22 M: Hey. C: What's up? M: What are you doing? C: Working on that story "Caves and Waterfalls" and writing an op-ed. M:...
- Aug 2
- 7 min
Don't stack the corners
Tuesday 8/2/22 I saw where a woman said she was an open book, and to turn the pages and unravel her. This annoyed me much. Do you not...
- Aug 1
- 3 min
"An Eye in the Door," short story excerpt
Monday 8/1/22 This story was told to me in the town where I grew up, but then again, it was told to everyone, or else you happened upon...
- Aug 1
- 13 min
Assorted
Monday 8/1/22 As disturbing as it is the percentage of people who think their personalities and who they are was determined by how close...
- Jul 31
- 4 min
"I can see why you enjoyed reading mine."
Sunday 7/31/22 C: It's remarkable how every last one of these people is a delusional, unstable moron. There really are no exceptions. The...
- Jul 30
- 3 min
"Outlast the Earth," short story excerpt
Saturday 7/30/22 "I definitely think I can outlast the earth," the child said to her protector. "Definitely, huh?" "Yep. Definitely." The...
- Jul 30
- 2 min
"Don't Tell Me," short story excerpt
Saturday 7/30/22 Don’t tell me to stop after I’ve started. Don’t tell me to look when I’ve already seen. Don’t tell me to talk when I’ve...
- Jul 27
- 9 min
The Nickel
Wednesday 7/27/22 A couple days ago I got my change back from the Starbucks where I'd ordered a tall black coffee and a large cup of...
- Jul 26
- 3 min
Talking baseball
Tuesday 7/26/22 * Was working Friday night on "Master of Romance," and went to check the score of the Red Sox game, and saw that it was...
- Jul 23
- 11 min
"Master of Romance," short story excerpt
Saturday 7/23/22 Nate Crayton was a master of romance. The word legendary was built for him and it might as well as have been made of...
- Jul 23
- 3 min
Push-ups
Saturday 7/23/22 This is an op-ed with which I could do nothing that is obviously better than other op-eds. So it becomes an entry here,...
- Jul 23
- 3 min
David Ortiz
Saturday 7/23/22 This is an op-ed with which I could do nothing that is obviously better than other op-eds. So it becomes an entry here,...
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