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I spent about an hour going down an internet rabbit hole tonight in response to the recent executive order to freeze immigration from certain Muslim countries. I am pleased with where I wound up, and how I got there, and I want to share it with you but I want to share it properly, with…
It’s been very difficult for me to write, lately. I don’t have anything I want to say. I feel as though I said it to you already, or I tried to say it. Maybe I didn’t say it correctly. Maybe you didn’t hear me correctly. Maybe no one was listening. If you can’t trust the…
It’s been brought to my attention twice in the past week or so that instead of talking to people to find out about them I make up their stories for myself. I prejudge. I’m prejudiced. Which is fine, I’ve accepted that about myself, I’d rather stare at the floor in other people’s company than risk…
They want me to pay $67 a month for internet. I could probably call them, fight for two hours, get it knocked back to about $50, but really it’s going to be just me here for the next four months, and apparently going to a dermatologist to get your fair skin a once-over does not…
Dee Gordon led off the game. He stood in the right handed batter’s box, even though he’s not a switch hitter. The back of his jersey, like the rest of his team’s that night, said Fernandez, number 16. He took a pitch from Bartolo Colon, 43 years old, then gathered another batting helmet from his…
He’s ready for bed but the fingers are itchy, wanting to speak their piece. Of what they feel the urge to expel, he knows not, but he’s learned not to ignore their beckon. Thirty days left until his wife returns for a brief sojourn in Pittsburgh before venturing on to new Virginian climes. It’s a…
Destined to become corpses anyway, eighty-six men, women, and children clung to the hull of the submarine. Nah, going nowhere. I would love to write some fiction again. I haven’t had a fresh story in mind in ages. I’m reading Anna Karenina right now and the intro to the translation said that the Konstantin Levin…
It started of course with Claudia Schiffer. 1996 calendar. I decided to keep track every day that year. The scale went from VB for Very Bad to Gr for Great. I think I had about five Great days that years. I was very stingy with the Great days. There was one week all year where…
People ask me about Cleveland because I’m from Ohio and I say unequivocally, Cleveland sucks. I say it to my sister who went to college in Cleveland. I say it to my parents who for some reason feel an allegiance to the Cleveland sports franchises, all except the Browns because who cares. I say it…
Cat in the bathroom. Cat named Goose. Baby Goose is her full name. She doesn’t just purr, she meow-purrs, which comes out like some kind of Amazonian frog, humid mating trills in the depths of the forest at 0200. We have Olympics again. Brazilian, this time, which is Anglo-Saxon for “stripped of all vegetation to…
Aaron M. Fortkamp 