My Living Media Will
For intravenous hydration, I prefer flat water to sparkling, with a slice of lemon in my IV bag
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Seven Love Letters
“Lubyanka, 2 September 1918” by David Bezmozgis My dear Mika, Though you have made it clear that you do not care for me, my heart nevertheless insists that I address …
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Franklin’s Library
The sailor looks up from the book. He looks up, out of the oily coin of candlelight lying on the page. He can still hear the shore crowd at Greenhithe, …
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If Things Happen for a Reason
This will be something to tell our children. That’s the first thing she remembers him saying to her. They were in a taxicab and he was holding her hand. She …
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Samson and Delilah
Samson’s father was an Israelite named Manoah. Manoah was an intellectual and a man of peace. He believed the troubles between his people and the Philistines could be solved through …
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Live Large
Billy Constable hadn’t been sleeping soundly and at four o’clock one June morning he found himself prowling his living room with a cup of coffee clutched in an unsteady hand. …
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Summer Plum (Winter Version)
Iwas about seven years old, and it was summer. My mother was making squares for fellowship group at the church, and on the table there was an open bag of …
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