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TBT #93: Blood Loss

Wendy stands on milkcrates when her phone starts to ring. She’s reaching up to get to the top shelf of the supply closet, looking for extra duotangs. The cell phone vibrates against her leg and startles her: her hand snaps to her side, her weight shifts back, she almost falls. But then she catches herself, [...]

2006

May

Posted by Matt at 11:20 pm
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TBT #92: The Watchers

We watch the people in the park while sitting on a cast-iron bench near a pigeon-stained statue of a noble man whose name I never learned. We’ve come there for years but I’ve never bothered to read his description on the plaque. The red bricks beneath our feet are inscribed with the names and messages [...]

2006

May

Posted by Matt at 11:45 pm
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TBT #91: The edges of Foreverman

The headlights shine in azure. They reflect off the pacific ocean when you take the steep turn after Exit 48. When the traffic is heavy enough, the water surface shines with individual lights, moving with the cars and with the waves, creating an erratic mess that shimmers like a jewelry box overturned and dumped on [...]

2006

May

Posted by Matt at 11:22 pm
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TBT #90: Synecdoche

I’ve been very nostalgic lately and I’m sorry for that. I know you don’t really like to talk much about the old times and that’s fine — I don’t really want to talk about them either. They’re in the past and I know that. They’re history. They’re done. They’re finito. I don’t pine anymore. Not [...]

2006

May