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Colin Fleming
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Many Moments More


What the weekend looked like
Monday 8/9/21 My weekends are all the same. I work, I workout to stay strong enough to endure. I start work each of the two days at four...
Aug 9, 20214 min read


Sports thoughts
Monday 8/9/21 You can tell a baseball team is going badly when it's not hard to tell that in-game misfortune is about to befall it. For...
Aug 9, 20215 min read


To Walk the Night book pitch
Sunday 8/8/21 Letter from yesterday morning. *** Quick thought... I would also like to do a short book on William Sloane's 1937 novel, To...
Aug 9, 20213 min read


"Everything on Them," short story excerpt
Wednesday 8/4/21 My mom used to make me visit this lady who lived across the street from us named Mrs. Dradey. I thought she honestly...
Aug 4, 20213 min read


The taking of the knee
Wednesday 8/4/21 Yesterday at the Apple store I had to wear the mask. They require it. If a business requires one, I'll wear it. That was...
Aug 4, 20214 min read


Yes, yes
Tuesday 8/3/21 I saw where someone who calls themselves DaBaby made stupid comments about HIV, and then doubled down on social media in,...
Aug 3, 20215 min read


"The Winter Meal," short story excerpt
Monday 8/2/21 The coyote rested its forepaws against the window, looking at the child in its roughhewn crib the way it did every day...
Aug 2, 20213 min read


A depressing text exchange that shouldn't be depressing but is because that's just where things are
Monday 8/2/21 P: "Dot" is fucking great P: I have to tell you honestly nobody is coming close to what you do P: It's really insane C:...
Aug 2, 20211 min read


F-slur
Monday 8/2/21 I can't say that the news that Matt Damon--who is fifty-one and went to Harvard--only recently stopped saying the word...
Aug 2, 20213 min read


Things I will discuss on the radio tomorrow
Monday 8/2/21 Laying out what I'll talk about tomorrow night. I want to get into how we've become a post-reality world and what I mean by...
Aug 2, 202110 min read


Fitness
Sunday 8/1/21 Ran 5000 stairs yesterday. Today marks 1862 days, or 266 weeks, without a drink of alcohol. This morning I ran 10,000...
Aug 1, 20213 min read


"Classroom discussion topics/questions for 'Your New Skin Color'"
Thursday 7/29/21 Why does Julie want to stay and hear the whole performance? Is the narrator complicit in what the comedian is saying by...
Jul 29, 20212 min read


"Wheelbarrow Rides," short story excerpt
Wednesday 7/28/21 She should’ve brought the wheelbarrow, the one her father gave her rides in as a girl, to round up his parts as she...
Jul 28, 20213 min read


Simone Biles
Wednesday 7/28/21 As with most people, I'm seeing many comments and what are now called "takes" on Simone Biles withdrawing the other...
Jul 28, 20215 min read


Stair thoughts
Monday 7/26/21 On Saturday I ran 3000 stairs, did the same today, and yesterday I ran 10,000, which is the third most amount of stairs...
Jul 26, 20214 min read


From the Levity variations; I call this one, "Depressing"
Monday 7/26/21 Someone with an advanced degree. This is about the best of what I encounter. She had said the word "combo"--while praising...
Jul 26, 20211 min read


"Dot," short story excerpt
Saturday 7/24/21 I had an aunt Dot who has been dead now for quite a few years. She was actually my great aunt, though we were not...
Jul 24, 20218 min read


"Captain Enclave," short story excerpt
Saturday 7/24/21 The writer knew what he’d do. That’s it. He’d call some people with whom he’d gone to graduate school. They’d provide...
Jul 24, 20217 min read


One way or another
Friday 7/23/21 I'm afraid I am not working very hard today. I am working in my head, planning, making lists to get formally organized for...
Jul 23, 20213 min read


Everything wrong with publishing: Scott Stossel of The Atlantic
This is years in the making. It's ultimately a story about sabotage, lies, cowardice, and discrimination. There will be multiple entries...
Jul 23, 20214 min read


300
Thursday 7/22/21 Have had a brutal migraine for several days. I wrote a story today called "The Backyard Dancer." It was good. A ghost...
Jul 22, 20213 min read


Links are back in the text
Wednesday 7/21/21 As an FYI. They cant' be uploaded with Firefox, even the most updated version of Firefox, because I went with a bad...
Jul 21, 20212 min read


"Captain Enclave," short story excerpt
Wednesday 7/21/21 First section of a new story I've had in my head for a bit. Special one. Will be going slow with it. *** “I’m here to...
Jul 21, 20215 min read


Hot peppers
Monday 7/19/21 "Seat of government" is a phrase some people use to try and make themselves sound smart. One hears it in connection with...
Jul 19, 20212 min read
"Heroism is endurance for one moment more."
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