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Monthly Archive for January, 2009

First time reader? Start here. Back to Part 4 — Forward to Part 6 Bourbon Bourbon’s real introduction, and a little more wallowing in suburbia. As of right now, I just have that much to say about this section. This is the end of Friday, and tomorrow is a new day. I’ll come up with [...]

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First time reader? Start here. Back to Part 4 — Forward to Part 6 Bourbon folded his arms and rested them on his knees. He sat on the steps of the porch behind TJ’s house, looking out over the lawns of the houses that backed up to it. It was too dark to see anything, [...]

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First time reader? Start here. Back to Part 3 — Forward to Part 5 Jon, Farly, and Bourbon Quite frankly, it’d be hard to do what Jon did. Kids can’t just disappear, though from what I’ve heard about the child services department of Washington State, it might be easier than I think it is. Still, [...]

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First time reader? Start here. Back to Part 3 — Forward to Part 5 Jon left Java, Missouri, in September. He left a note that explained how little he felt connected in Java, how much he hated school, and how badly he needed change. He and Jace, his girlfriend, were heading west to promises of [...]

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First time reader? Start here. Back to Part 2 — Forward to Part 4 Church Street. Why Church Street? I like the way it sounds. The no churches on church street comes from my old militant atheism mindset, but it also parallels the movement of mega-churches to the vast fields of the ex-urbs in the [...]

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First time reader? Start here. Back to Part 2 – Forward to Part 4 There were no churches on Church Street. The last one closed down a few years ago and stood abandoned, its congregation moved to cheaper, “safer” suburbs. The front doors were closed and locked and most-likely nailed shut, and plastered with “Condemned” [...]

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Seattle, it appears, posts on Flickr. My personal favorite set: Getting Around.

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First time reader? Start here. Back to Part 1 — Forward to Part 3 This section is short. There’ll be a much longer section next time. That being said, I don’t know if I have too much to say about this span, except: Furball as a calico. It has been pointed out to me before [...]

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First time reader? Start here. Back to Part 1 — Forward to Part 3 Friday, Part 2 Furball never looked at himself in the mirror. He didn’t like it. It wasn’t because he was small and almost pathetically scrawny, but because he was a calico. When girls were calicos, there were exotic, something that rarely [...]

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