Back to Childhood

Asian supermarket, Thanksgiving Day.

Package of cookies showed me a blue cartoon cat with no ears.

Are you kidding? Is that cat still around?

Maybe he's Taiwan's Mickey Mouse.

Checking out, I wished I'd learned some Chinese at my friend's house while reading that cat's comic books.

Just enough to tell the cashier, "Thank you."

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The Gift 55

I've gotten some swell gifts in my life. Some from people, some from luck, or fate, or the Divine, if you believe in those kindsa things. 

What's the best gift ever, for me? Well, there's being alive, of course. But everyone gets that. 

The best gift

just for me? 

It's when she said, 

Be you.

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Vinyl Repair Kit 55

Phil had a thing for blow-up dolls. Not cheap ones - painted faces, seams in wrong places. Good ones: molded features ... realistic hair ... blue eyes.

His dream? A life-size silicon woman to hold him and listen.

Phil had a thing for blow-up dolls. And it had taken him just one passionless marriage to get there.

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Just a tip 55

I've been told I have cholesterol problems.

                                                          Bummer.

I've been told herring is good for my cholesterol.

                                                    I like herring.

I've been told oatmeal is good for my cholesterol.

                                                   I like oatmeal.

Walnuts? Yeah, good for cholesterol.

                                             And I like walnuts.

If you have cholesterol problems ...

                          do not put these things together.

That is all.

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Halloween 55

We shall rise from Earth entombing

We shall storm moon-haunted night

We shall glut our hungry wanting

You shall whimper

You shall cry

                       Elder

                Ancient

          Angry

     Endless

We have waited

                Now We Strike

Maws and claws and flames and venom

                See us

                        Fear us

        Flee us

                    DIE

                       Now,

                weak things,

                    Mortality's hour

                           is

                                come

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This Week, Better Than Last Week 55

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spoke  to a  friend who'd  read  one of my  books,  gushed

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True Life 55

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