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Summer magic
Someone said that youth is wasted on the young, but Patrick knew in his heart it wasn’t wasted on him. When I am old and gray and full of sleep, nodding by the fire, he thought, I will remember this summer of my life and how nothing in the world can be better than [...]
Shedding Season
Guston, the vampire dog, lived a life of quiet desperation. Ever since he could remember he’d had a frivolous obsession with his fur. He vaguely realized it might be related to the behavior of Alison Strange, the woman with whom he shared an apartment and a bed. Alison woke up every morning at 6 – just [...]
The Onset of Spring
Lately Finnegan was having trouble with everything. Each morning when he awoke, it occurred to him that nothing had changed in his life for a long time. He thought about Bill Murray in Groundhog Day. He’d get up, go for a walk with his old friend Ed (a reclusive sculptor who also lived a groundhog [...]
Ridge Road – Hot Dog!
This morning we went for a walk on Ridge Road. As with all the roads in this town, it’s a dirt road. This time of year the frost that’s been in the roads all winter starts melting and rising which creates soft roads = our famous Mud Season. It hasn’t been too bad this year [...]
