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Oh, I could die right now, he thinks as he watches the last 33 seconds of Phantogram’s “Futuristic Casket” count down on his iTunes. His apartment feels like a futuristic casket; with his Britney Spears literacy poster and…

January 20 2012, 7:33pm

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Art Warrior, Because Art Ninja Seemed Cliché

After paying off some debts (in the sum of 1600 gold pieces) tonight (for credit cards) and realizing again that I had some freedom from the brokers and guilds, I started looking around this amazing apartment of mine.…

January 19 2012, 9:26pm

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Coming Up For Air

SCUBA is an acronym as opposed to an intialism. You can pronounce it, and that, apparently, makes all the difference. The first time Gene passed his SCUBA class, the hardest part was when the instructor took him down…

January 15 2012, 6:16pm

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Checkmate?

He pulls away. “It’s just that you’re too cool to sleep with.” “Huh?” In the back corner of a booth in the back of a nicely lit red dive bar, she was just about to put her lips…

October 25 2011, 11:56pm

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A Series of Tubes

“You can’t do that. You can’t just expect me to be fine with living with a stranger just because you all can’t keep track of a simple list. That’s all it is, a list. People, rooms. Why is…

September 8 2011, 1:00pm

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Don’t Ask Mr. Advice—You’ve been warned

Dear Mr. Advice, I recently purchased some jelly beans. These were not just any sort of jelly beans; they were the very special kind that taste like all sorts of assorted tastes like celery, tomato, coffee, and pudding.…

September 7 2011, 8:15pm

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Trouble, Help, Guilt and Justification

This guy walked by me on Brooks, carrying a gas can, looking beat up—like black-eye beat up. He looked beat as in tired, too. He stops me, I pull my headphones out—believe me, hot from walking to the…

September 2 2011, 10:31pm

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Does the Proof Ever Knock?

Does it ever sound like the steady clack of steel wheels on rails that pass through a chasm or a city? And if the proof ever sounded like a freight train rumbling toward you, would you ready yourself…

August 28 2011, 1:00pm

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Does the Proof Ever Knock?

Does it ever sound like the steady clack of steel wheels on rails that pass through a chasm or a city? And if the proof ever sounded like a freight train rumbling toward you, would you ready yourself…

May 19 2010, 8:06pm

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