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Terrible Chairs
Four Brits and a Yank photo by Todd (click on photo to see larger) “There are some terrible chairs in the world,” said Ruth, Abi’s sister, as we were enjoying afternoon tea on the deck in the blessed...
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Sleep
Oasis painting by Nolan Winkler Ten days ago I woke at eight in the morning feeling utterly exhausted, as if instead of sleeping I had walked fifty miles while arguing with a series of neurotic...
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Dream Songs
Basketball Guitar photo by Todd “One does not dream; one is dreamed. We undergo the dream, we are the objects.” Carl Jung For two consecutive mornings recently I woke from dreams in which I was...
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Lyrics
new place diptych by Max (click on image to enlarge) So I was in the post office a few days ago mailing a package to North Salem, New York, and the clerk helping me was not Lara or Robin, our beloved...
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Best Laid Plans
The Far Fields painting by Nolan Winkler To accomplish your task, you must have a clear intention of what you wish to accomplish. You’ve probably heard those words or a close variant multiple times in...
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Undivided Self
Standards by Max Greenstreet (click on image to enlarge) “I would suspect that the hardest thing for you to accept is your own beauty. Your own worth. Your own dignity. Your own calling to learn to...
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Frank’s Muse
Heart of Muse photo by Todd Frank was thirty and lived on a monthly check from the state: four hundred and sixty-eight dollars. His rent for a small room in a three-story boarding house in a scary...
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Ophelia’s Journey
Winter Woods painting by Nolan Winkler Born in Visalia, California, the fifth of seven children in a tempestuous Italian family, Ophelia Martinelli is fifty-seven and has been a legal secretary in...
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The Screw
Elk Cloud photo by Todd in the spirit of Isaac Bashevis Singer In the large coastal town of Croft’s Landing, Oregon, there are three hardware stores: Anderson’s, Pirelli’s, and Lowenstein’s. Each of...
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Juneau’s Farm
Waiting For the Moment painting by Nolan Winkler Two years ago, at the age of forty, Frederick Scott divorced his wife of seventeen years, gave up his life as an electrician in San Jose, California,...
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Zelman’s Van
Zelman was born and raised in a middle-class suburb of Philadelphia. His given name is Zachariah Elman, though as far back as he can remember, which is thirty years to when he was three, his mother...
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Naomi Drives To Portland
Naomi can count on one hand the number of times she’s left the greater Los Angeles area since she was born in North Hollywood sixty-two years ago. When she was twenty, Naomi married Simon Welch, a...
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Wade Rises From the Sofa
Wade stops walking, looks around the neighborhood he’s lived in for forty-five years, and says, “What am I doing?” A few minutes ago, he was sitting on the sofa in his living room staring at the...
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Lila’s Crisis
On a warm September day in Los Angeles, Lila and Desiree are having salads and smoothies for lunch at Boffo, a hip eatery on Sunset Boulevard. Lila is thirty-three, Desiree twenty-nine. Lila’s mother...
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Marvin and the Cat
At dusk in late October in the far north of California, Marvin Rees, forty-two, gazes fixedly out one of the three south-facing windows in the living room of his spacious three-bedroom house, the...
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Sid Writes A Song
Sid Lawry is sixty-two and has been a waiter at Falcon, a most excellent restaurant in Lambertville, New Jersey for the last fourteen years. He has lived in Lambertville since he was twelve, having...
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Mrs. Espy and the Hippy
Her name is Elvira Espy, Elvira Jeanine Espy, but everyone who knows her, save for her brother Scott, calls her Mrs. Espy. Scott calls her El, and on those rare occasions when he wants to tease her,...
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Karen at the Bookstore
Karen Constantine is fifty-four and has worked at Studio Books for eighteen years. Studio Books is the only bookstore in the coastal town of Deep River, California, a five-hour drive north of San...
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Raymond’s Band
Raymond’s partner Tina will sometimes tease Raymond by saying he loves his guitar Susie more than he loves her, which Raymond doesn’t think is true, though he does love his guitar. He’s been playing...
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Tober’s Stones
Tober Quincy is nine-years-old and quite tall for his age. Highly intelligent and intuitive and talkative, his dark brown hair has yet to be cut since he was born and nearly reaches his waist. Some...
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