Comet Light Over Us
My name is Jared, I'm sixty-two years old, and last August I did something completely out of character.
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01 02 Jealous Janitor Gets Trapped
I been a janitor for eleven years and I never once thought the job would follow me home like this.
03 Forklift and Firelight
I park the truck at the far end of the dirt lot and sit there a minute, watching myself in the mirror.
04 Sun Salutation, Sound Check Seduction
Eddie was twenty-eight years old and he had come to the conclusion, somewhere around the second month after his divorce went through, that…
05 The Guillotine Game Over
Barry shut down the shake-out belt on Separation 3 at 11:30 in the morning.
06 The Diamond Point Favor
Alison Clarke was thirty-six years old, and she still owned a scribe she'd bought at a county fair fifteen years ago.
07 Cracked Ink and Hoar Frost
Henrietta here, twenty-three, and I should say up front that this whole thing started because of a rock.
08 The Ski Lift Stop
I want to start by saying I'm twenty-four years old, I've been married for a year and a half, and I work as a zookeeper, which is a fancy…
09 Letters from the Front Row
I am fifty-two years old and I let a forty-five year old woman talk me into emailing a total stranger.
10 The Welder and the Sound Guy
I never wanted to go to a folk festival, not really, but the town was three hours from anywhere and Diane had been talking about it for a…
11 Clean Sheets and Country Air
The dryer had been dead for days, apparently.
12 Boo the Monster for Hire
The tent smelled like pine oil and someone else's vanilla candle, and Delia had long since stopped noticing either.
13 The Quiet Touch
The pool after hours is a strange kind of quiet.
14 Drawstring and Denial
I'm Russ, twenty-eight, and I run the gear library in the old railway tunnel at Karioi.
15 one more round
I was twenty eight years old and standing at the Great Lakes Brew Fest with a plastic cup of something hoppy that I didn't really want…
16 The Bronze Key
The gravel in the drive-in lot had gone soft with grass.
17 Hop and Sway
The rope went with a crack you could feel in your teeth.
18 The Heron's Witness
Lara stood at the bar of the Blue Heron with her second gin and tonic getting warm in her hand, and she was doing the thing she hated…
19 My Punk Festival Mistake
I got to Puncture Fest on Saturday afternoon, two hours late, and I was already in a bad mood about it.
20 Empty Seat
My son Lou had been gone to college for six weeks when I finally did something for myself, and I mean really for myself.
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