Category Archives: lotus eaters

about people who are not facing the here and now, but have to be there and then on cell phones and ipods

next door

Since that early autumn 911call my wealthy neighbours have changed. We used to share hedge trimming sometimes get together for barbecue and we were even planning a trip to Mexico together but that crash changed everything. We haven’t exchanged two … Continue reading

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shy

The new lady was formidable: Scottish, she straddled continents and the conversation at our familiar dinner table as she would mount a feisty mare for an afternoon canter; and she was sitting next to me. In the midst of the … Continue reading

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odd

No hydro line went into the old farmhouse a sister and two brothers lived alone they farmed by horsepower and they never painted the hard frame house the colour of dried bones. Year by year they farmed into their nineties … Continue reading

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