Monday 9/27/21 Ran 3000 stairs. I've figured out most of the new story, "Earwax," that I began this AM. It is usually the same. There are...

Monday 9/27/21 Over the weekend I started reading William Sloane's To Walk the Night again for what is probably the fiftieth time because...

Monday 9/27/21 A woman wakes up on a Saturday morning and she has a daughter after not having a daughter the night before when she went...

Monday 9/27/21 I had this neighbor who was a kind of barbarian, I’d say, named Dizio, which sounds like a flippant name for a flippant...

Monday 9/27/21 I call this, "snatches from a dating site." (That's not a pun.) "I'm looking for someone to compliment my life." Not one...

Sunday 9/26/21 M: Wow. That was a lot! You have got to be an English major of some sort!!! I have always been better with math verses...

Thursday 9/23/21 I need counsel and I need support. Even when counsel is just another voice. I can't be out here entirely all alone in...

Wednesday 9/22/21 Fiction to lay you the fuck out. *** Sometimes I’ll wonder if the devil would be a good father. I picture a farmer in...

Wednesday 9/22/21 Certain forests are more desolate than other forests. That is the nature of desolation. A place may be at a similar...

Wednesday 9/22/21 Replacement coffee maker arrived. Here's a new personal essay in The Smart Set called "Riding the Mare," which is about...

Wednesday 9/22/21 Let tragedy be tragedy, and don’t be a “yeah, but” person After learning that the remains of Gabby Petito had been...

Monday 9/20/21 Her husband was gone, a child of hers was gone, and even a grandchild, and still the woman lived and wished to live. She’d...

Monday 9/20/21 Something worth keeping in mind, I think--or never losing sight of. I was thinking about this young couple with their van...

Monday 9/20/21 "Tell me more about yourself" is such a lazy way to talk to somebody. This is a conversation that can only be...

Sunday 9/19/21 It's not often I get new shoes or sneakers here in this hell below hell that is the current iteration/geography of my...

Sunday 9/19/21 A letter this morning to the IC: “When focus fails, purpose falters,” her father used to say. She’d been, and always been,...

Sunday 9/19/21 The list stands at 320 stories on September 22. "Funny Lines TK" "Nacho Cheese" "Invisible Man on Second" "The World of...

Sunday 9/19/21 In addition to the idiocy, you can also tell when they are insecure, passive aggressive, and gunning right from the start....

Saturday 9/18/21 This was due yesterday, and it was written yesterday. I know how it works, and knowing how it works, I'm simply going to...

Saturday 9/18/21 * Saw a weak-minded, bizarre list of the top football players of all-time, by someone, of course, with a million...

Saturday 9/18/21 A letter to the Inner Circle, evening of 9/16: Spoke to the woman at the Starbucks I gave the copy of the Sam book to...

Friday 9/17/21 “Not everybody’s going to be nice to you, not everybody’s going to be kind,” the boy’s mother said. Sometimes it came...

Wednesday 9/15/21 It’s a bizarre feeling trying to find a certified birth certificate when you’re adopted and you don’t know who your...

Tuesday 9/14/21 Ted hated to do it but he put on his shower sandals from the gym, the Jesus wig he owned from an old “scary monk”...