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Dea Ex Machina
Logging on to my email account, I was pleased to find a message from Evelyn, an ex-girlfriend, whom I hadn’t seen in years. Last I’d heard, Evelyn was married, with twins, living in San Francisco where she ran a store that sold stained glass. I was less pleased after I read her message: Judd-My husband [...]
The Jew’s Tale
I wanted to get my watch fixed before I hung myself. The battery had run out weeks before, and I hadn’t the energy to replace it. Nor the money. And then I worked all month painting walls, loading trucks and folding shirts until the holidays came. I made some deliveries and held a sign on [...]
The Procreant
Intimate Relationship #9.5 is pregnant. She informed me of this while we were eating lunch at a diner in West Hollywood. “We’re due in February!” “Wow,” I said. “That’s great.” “I can’t wait to tell my parents!” “I’m sure they’ll be thrilled.” There I was talking to someone I’d known for years, someone I’d lived [...]
Praise Monkey
J- was sitting at his desk, at home, struggling, typing a report for The Patent Office when he heard a knock on his door. Must be my elderly neighbor, he assumed. Asking me to carry his groceries up the stairs again. I’ll have to talk to the building manager. Can’t have these disturbances while I [...]
The Blessed King
I was talking to Alan at the bagel shop one day when he told me he was thinking of killing himself. He’d had enough, he said. He was tired of living on the street. “All around me I’m surrounded by wealth, and I have nothing. Not even a place to wash.” Alan is a large [...]