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Juice Like Wounds
20+ min read · 2020-07-13 · In the course of every great adventure there are multiple side-quests. All too often these go unreported—perhaps because the adventurers in question fail to return to the main narrative due to deat…
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Pimp My Airship
20+ min read · From 2020 · 6,100 words “Who Stole the Soul?” “Citizens of the Universe, do not attempt to adjust your electro-transmitter, there is nothing wrong. We have taken control to bring you this special bulletin.” “A…
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The Paris Review
The Seals
20+ min read · From 2020 · I know we’re supposed to be happy on this day. How odd that is. When you’re very young, you’re usually happy, at least you’re ready to be. You get older and see things more clearly and there’s less to…
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The Paris Review
The Hermit's Story
20+ min read · From 2020 · An ice storm, following seven days of snow; the vast fields and drifts of snow turning to sheets of glazed ice that shine and shimmer blue in the moonlight as if the color is being fabricated not by…
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The Paris Review
from Molloy
~18 min read · From 2020 · There are people the sea doesn’t suit, they prefer the mountains or the plain. Personally, I feel no worse there than anywhere else. Much of my life has ebbed away before this shivering expanse, to…
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The Paris Review
The Stay
9 min read · From 2019 · Pushed from its hidden end, a sofa drifted into the parking lot under my window. The pushes became feeble thrusts and then short convulsions, until, with a final spasm, the couch nudged one of the…
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Engadget
Qualcomm's new mobile chipsets pack more features for the non-5G crowd
2 min read · From 2020 · In other words, they're meant for most of the world.
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The Paris Review
Freedom
~20 min read · From 2019 · “What’s it called,” Dale said, “when you have one of those bloody great blinding flashes of insight that changes the way you look at things?” I said I wasn’t sure: a few different words sprang to…
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The Paris Review
J. G. Ballard, The Art of Fiction No. 85
8 min read · From 2018 · Photograph by Fay Godwin The son of an English businessman, J. G. Ballard was born and raised in Shanghai. For the past twenty-odd years, he has lived more or less anonymously in Shepperton, a dingy,…
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The Paris Review
from A Man Asleep
~11 min read · From 2019 · You are sitting, naked from the waist up, wearing only pajama bottoms, in your garret, on the narrow bench that serves as your bed, with a book. Raymond Aron’s Eighteen Lectures on Industrial Society,…
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Boston Review
To the Fordham
~11 min read · From 2019 · In a pre-Giuliani New York where pornographic theaters create communities of dissimilar people, a young blue-collar worker and a homeless ex-con forge a connection through their shared enjoyment of…
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The Paris Review
Dancing in the Moonlight
9 min read · From 2018 · I met her two days before Christmas at a holiday pop-up market on the Lower East Side. This was 2006, and she was selling refurbished antique furniture, which she’d placed around her taped-off space…
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