Yes

Lois Lowry taught me who Freud was.  A guy prominent enough to have a bust, one that her character, Anastasia, kept in her room and talked to.  Anastasia, Ask Your Analyst was the name of one of the books I loved.  Reading about a Freud bust, a big Victorian house in the city of higher […]

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Five Truths and Assorted Lies

Five things that are true: one, there is a spider in my apartment.  He is fat and round like a ringmaster, brown and fuzzy.  He has a huge web in the living room, between a tattered white stained glass window that is leaning, and the real window.  Behind him is a view of the sections […]

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Happy Monday

I had three job interviews in one day, which in some countries is punishment for shoplifting.  I have never shoplifted.  I am much too nervous to try. First I went down into the right subway, which felt wrong, crossed the street, down into the wrong one, then back across the street to the right one. […]

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Fox Hunt

“If only we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the fleshpots and ate our fill of bread; for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.” My tour guide told me I would love the fox.  I […]

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