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Category: Fiction
The Boy’s Hair Caught Fire, But Your Shishkabobs Are Fine
The kids are into baseball now, a development that warms this old good field-no hit third baseman’s heart, so we were watching the Red Sox after bath time. “Dad?” Skipper, the younger of my two sons […]
You Keep Using the Word
Haiku to Heteroskedasticity Some words are quite longHeteroskedasticityIs one of those those.* * = “Those those” because the last line needs five syllables. Haikus aren’t easy to write either. Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, […]
As Summer Wanes, Grade School Cougars on the Prowl
WESTLAND, Mass. Emily Adams is a twelve-year-old who will be entering sixth grade at Mosi Tatupu Middle School in this western suburb of Boston next month, and yesterday found her with her mother shopping for […]
Conchita Aramaio, Female Jackie Robinson of Jai Alai, Dead at 89
HOLLYWOOD, Florida. Conchita Aramaio, often referred to as the “female Jackie Robinson of jai alai,” died yesterday after a brief illness. She was 89. A native of Navarre, Spain, Aramaio broke jai alai’s sex barrier […]
Let’s Put On a Show
Like every red-blooded American boy of a certain age–gay or straight–the first time I saw Judy Garland I fell deeply and tragically in love. Those big cocker spaniel eyes; the quivering lip when faced with […]
