short-story
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Pump
You can’t really fake having rolled wheel lines on time. When your boss is out of town on a long weekend, say, and has left the potatoes in your charge you can’t just leave lines irrigating where they sit and then roll them where they’re supposed to sit just as your boss gets home and Continue reading
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What to expect when you’re not really expecting anything anymore
Genie inherited a stack of photographs from her grandma. They were in rough shape. They had not been in direct sunlight, but they’d been near it. By an attic vent, in a clear plastic container with no seal, loose. The weather had rocked the container. Crossbreezes. Mist from rain. Hot air, cold air, dry air, Continue reading
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Netflix
Dark when I wake up again. When it was becoming light out early, back in the spring (end of winter, early spring) I began already to look forward to this time of year. To write in darkness in the morning. To read by lamplight at night. August When I lived in Montana, I skipped a Continue reading
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SPF 45, might delete later
I’m doing that thing where you stand in the shower in the steam and stare down the drain like it’s a cave whose bottom is deep and black and you’re about to jump. It’s my second shower of the day and probably the second out of three. I keep going outside and keep reapplying sunscreen Continue reading
About Me
Yes, about me…
todd of tacoma 