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Blue Fortuna
“I finally abandoned my dream of celebrity when I realized I had talent.” —Napoleon Star, A Life They still had bookstores in those days. Vand’s was a block from my …
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How to Become a Mascot
First, quit your day job and go back to school, even though you’re thirty-two already. Do this because your boyfriend is dead and you will never get to run your …
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A Punctuated Romance
An Ostrich
When Dad died, I talked to an ostrich. In the waiting room, an ostrich sat down. “Who let this ostrich in? ” I said. The janitor stared at me. The ostrich …
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The Dream Museum
“You’ll be a disappointment till the day I die.” Mom loved me to death but . . . One time, we got into a big row. She said something I didn’t really like, …
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On Fables and Fiction
A Q&A with Patrick deWitt on his new novel, Undermajordomo Minor
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Phantom Limb
My mother’s suffering, from a distance
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One Hundred Knives in the Air
Out came Jenny Balak, and out came the knives. Within seconds there was a cloud of them in the air above her head, at centre court of the school gymnasium, …
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