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Walking away --Fiction

I don’t know why you kept asking me if I’d write about you. I told you I never write ..


National Geographic guilt

I am sitting at my dining room table. To my right are five issues of the National Geographic. ..


The one that got away

One day after I had been investigating fires for about a year, I was standing outside a private residence in ..


Sandwiches ... a tribute

When I was in high school, I believed that the doughy bread in a sandwich roll should be dug out ..


Never cross a word

An unpredictable set of circumstances brought me from the Midwest to a confrontation with a failed actress in a tenement ..


Hero Worship Eyes

From the day Francis met Will—the same day that they became partners—it was as if, for her, the rest of ..


Innocence Project re-trial frees murderer Ed Graf, Jr.

Today, I’m going to tell you a story. It’s a mystery, as good or better than the fictional ones ..


The hunter’s blind

Life creates circumstances during which people are plopped in our paths, and for good or for ill we exert something ..


Ballad of a not-organ donor

Yes, here I am All body parts Intact, where they should be. My heart to beat My feet to walk Both eyes in orbs to ..


A happy hunting ground

I received a letter the other day from my friend Lolly, saying, “Did I tell you that I got my ..


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