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Unrated, or the Graduation Party, or Movie Night, a Short Story
Author’s Note: something I wrote during the pandemic five years ago without edits, so this was before I was struck last winter with my original style.
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Sir Jay
Why Did Trump Have to Bomb Iran?
I haven’t explained very much why I’ve largely stopped writing about all the things that I started this blog to write about.
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The Morality of Don Juan and the Sorrow of the Womanizer
As I am trying at great pains to reconcile myself with my nature as a guy who first looks too good and loves too much, arguably, I have been reading a…
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Hitler’s Grandson
Acknowledgements: for every artist who gets labelled an “enfant terrible;” for the idiots who demand apologies and explanations from those of us who owe…
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Hot Girl Summer, or Four Girls One Summer, So Many Guys Such Little Time, a Short Novel
Acknowledgments: for Elizabeth Van Dyke and our summers with the Korossys, you being my favorite most brilliant hot girl I ever hung out with all summer…
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Why It Was Inevitable I Would Write About My Looks a Lot
One of my central themes if you haven’t already noticed is that good looking and rich people are an embattled minority.
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Courtney Badwood, or, The Furnace, a History of a Damn Mean Girl
Acknowledgments: for the mean girls and bitchy women who were either made mean by the world or born it—you’re very attractive and sympathetic, to me; I…
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A Deeply Insouciant Volunteer
Sequel to The Insouciant Volunteer
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The Cacophonous School Board Meeting, a Short-Story
Acknowledgments: for my right wing school board mom friends
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The Awakening, or Keira and Jon, a Short-Story About Growing Up
Acknowledgments: for Lexie Williams and the night we ran away from all our friends who made fun of us just to be alone and sit in silence together too…
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Sir Jay
My Narratological Technique
As I am conceiving the elaborate scene next in my series where I’m riffing on the death of Sherlock Holmes as I appear to kill my main character as he…
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Why A Lot of a Great Artist’s Friends Are His Enemies and You Need to Consciously Pick the Right Friends
Today I pulled the plug on one of my closest friendships since childhood.
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