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Ben

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About Me

writing fiction, tiny moments, fragments, sentences. listening to slow jams. performance art, enthusiasm. Endlessly learning. Okay with that. I eat pineapple, cantaloupe. I continue to dream.

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writers, artists, performers, teachers, researchers, people in deep and unreasonably fixated on how to contribute more fully to the passage of time.

My Blog

5 minute story 35

Story 35 I felt as despised and cold as a stray dog.  You felt it too.  It was almost like we were communicating.  And then you said "I lost a leg."  I looked at you. You said:&n...
Posted by on Mon, 19 Nov 2007 21:03:00 GMT

5 minute story 34

Story 34Once the holidays were over my uncle would climb on the back of the donkey and set off for the delta railway station.We prepared to escort him and gathered behind the house where a section of ...
Posted by on Sat, 10 Nov 2007 18:07:00 GMT

5 minute story 33

Story 33 "...time comes apart," the walrus said.  "The terrace is fire-proof," the pigeon said. "The structure needs a new foundation," the horse said.  "Rain is a gene," the grave said...
Posted by on Fri, 09 Nov 2007 20:13:00 GMT

5 minute story 32

Story 32 It hasn't spread.  My love for Magglio.  And though I think about how he comes, came, to love me, with me, on me, and through all over, endlessly, I don't not fear the hand of etern...
Posted by on Thu, 08 Nov 2007 19:29:00 GMT

5 minute story 31

Story 31 A few feet from me rests a derailed locomotive.  Or a portrait of one.  The hinges were moonlit and made the scene look more definitive than it probably is, or was.  ...
Posted by on Wed, 07 Nov 2007 13:05:00 GMT

5 minute story 30

Story 30Here she disembarked with the wounded man, with whom she lodged at an inn.  Here she fell beside him into a crash blanket in a clam shuck shed in the collapsing weeks before the black ves...
Posted by on Sat, 22 Sep 2007 19:29:00 GMT

5 minute story 29

Story 29 And as I watch him slowly scoop up the first piece of chili, I soften.  He had never seen himself so happy, I mean, if he had been this happy as a child, he definitely didn't know it.&nb...
Posted by on Fri, 21 Sep 2007 20:58:00 GMT

5 minute story 28

Story 28 Simple:  they ran out of gas.  Brent got out of the car, his dress shoes crunching the dirt and pebbles.  He breathed in. "Nothing gonna find us here, Brent."  G...
Posted by on Mon, 10 Sep 2007 20:07:00 GMT

5 minute story 27

Story 27 There is a lawnball club based in Pittsburgh.  It's called Grassy Holes.  They are sponsered by a rectal health agency benefitting men and women from surrounding neighborh...
Posted by on Sat, 08 Sep 2007 20:44:00 GMT

5 minute story 26

Story 26 "You first," said the King in a barely audible whisper, as he was aging fast. "By this seventh round, I have experienced no irregular head swells, your lord-head, while by the eye drops you'v...
Posted by on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 19:44:00 GMT