Tag: friends
member name: Thomm Quackenbush
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November 21, 2007 12:25 AM EST --
Black Wings and Sylvia Plath
Emily had not been up for Samhain, the Pagan holiday honoring the dead, so we opted to have Halloween instead. She waited until the last moment . . .
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July 08, 2007 02:35 PM EDT --
And We Are So Polite
Dives Dives looks at me and concertedly turns her head away, actively ignoring me as I stand on the street in New Paltz listening to the band Tiger Piss playing their set. As I do . . .
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October 02, 2007 08:31 PM EDT --
Turnstile
On the roof of the loft -- the flat an ever-changing collection of Dan Kessler's friends occupy -- he sings a song about one of the occupants with whom he is developing a romantic attachment. . . .
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November 26, 2007 01:30 PM EST --
The Unveiled Woman
I make the bold assumption that anyone with whom Dan Kessler has shared any intimacy -- which should be read as more than ten minutes of solid conversation -- counts . . .
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July 24, 2008 03:30 PM EDT --
Sunshine and the Storm Cloud
I walk into the Cracker Barrel and zero in on Jenn, who is wearing black jeans and a shirt under an open, mid-calf gray dress. I decide this outfit -- a . . .
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August 12, 2007 05:52 PM EDT --
Stormy Petrel
Fifteen-minute lunches and sporadic dinners in the Vassar dining hall aren't enough for someone who I wish played a more central role in my life. Jacqui, though I care for and respect . . .
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June 25, 2008 03:54 PM EDT --
Little Did He Know
I live my life as a story to give myself perspective and space, to make my actions have to be a bit more daring, but it is rare that I feel I have entered someone . . .
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March 08, 2007 11:46 AM EST --
Manifest Well
I enter Zack's house and pause to see the girl with long dreadlocks and a skittish smile trying to pet Berty. She stays near enough to Dan's personal space to assure the viewer . . .
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September 01, 2008 02:10 PM EDT --
Accessories After the Fact
I tell Hannah that I consider James an accessory to her, not an entity in himself. They are having issues. She is not sure how to take his uncertainty, if this . . .
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January 16, 2007 02:20 PM EST --
Night of the Day of the Dawn
If the zombies break in, I would almost certainly die. In the prep school theater where I am to endure a week of orientation, there are only two exits. One goes outside to . . .
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December 30, 2006 06:56 PM EST --
To Blave
"Why is there a crowd getting out of your mother's car?" Emily asks. I turn and see the aforementioned crowd, my mother, father, sister-in-law, three nieces and younger brother. . . .
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