Tag: fiction
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“I might be a dork, but I’m a resourceful dork.” –from Junot Diaz’s “Wildwood”
Here’s a strategy for writers or anyone who talks: communicate in memorable phrases. As sensible and obvious of a strategy as this might seem, it wasn’t something that occurred to me until the past year or two, that I ought to look for chances to write what some people might call a “golden line,”…
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Colonoscopy: Part I
Before I tell you about a recent colonoscopy procedure I had done, I want to tell you about an idea I have for a story that I’d call “Modern Medicine.” There’s this guy (hmmm, this is starting to feel very autobiographical) who had blood in his stool a couple times. He’s pretty sure that he…