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I was never a bad student, but it wasn’t like I was particularly outstanding at math. As a kid, like any good mother mine made me memorize my times…

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I majored in biology back at school, or started out majoring, because I wanted to study people like they were animals at the zoo. But as it turns out I…

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OK, I said I wouldn’t touch on the women yet, but I did just mention trans-women. OK: they did not, in fact, hang out with us—with the men. OK: they…

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Vanessa was a beautiful woman that worked at my work. Very slight of build—her shoulders in particular, I always think of her shoulders: there is a…

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Another character sketch from another abandoned novel

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I started smoking weed after a premonitory dream… Webster’s defines “premonition,” as “a strong feeling that something is about to happen, especially…

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Where did I go wrong that my brothers didn’t? “Didn’t you always push just a little too hard?,” I remember my brother asking me once; “didn’t you give…

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Character sketch. Can you believe I used to actually write this way? Illegibly dense.

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