Emotion

Lopsided Honeymoon

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Two weeks before I met Judith, I had a relationship with an older lady in my dream. We worked the relationship all the way to marriage, even though she told me several times I could go for someone younger if she wasn’t the right fit. I assured her she was. She asked if my family […]

For When You Wake

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First you must imagine everything in sepia.  The big fight. The broken bottle. The fire, all of it. I can’t even feel guilty, that’s the evil in this, even if what I meant that night was taken off the edge of the alcohol. What were you saying? Did it matter? Do the things we say […]

Kaldi’s Friendly Poison

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My name is Kaldi, the legendary founder of coffee from Ethiopia. I might have died many years ago, but my spirit is on an important mission to Nairobi. Our hero, Jonah the depressed writer and I were united by my friendly poison, which I discovered in the year of Our Lord 850 AD. The truth […]