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The Writing Jellyfish
Last week I submitted more work to literary magazines than I did throughout the entirety of 2015.
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From The Stacks: Songs and Pictures of the Fabulous Beatles
The Beatles on Vee-Jay? Score! Wait, not so fast.
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Throw Beck Thursday: Will James Become A Teen Hooker?
Highway 11 was the back fence of my small world, the northernmost boundary of my known universe. It wasn’t much to look at — a black two-laner bordered by peach orchards, pine trees, and kudzu. Big rigs tore down the blacktop on their way to and from Gaffney, sucking my bicycle into their wakes and…
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Deep Cuts: Boxer Songs
The Greatest is gone, and with him the last great era in boxing history.
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Why I Can’t Write About Ali
I am caught between obligation and dread. Muhammad Ali is dead, and I feel like I’m supposed to write something profound about his passing, but I don’t want to.
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From the Stacks: ‘Yardbirds on Down’
Here’s one from the golden era of bootlegs.
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Throw Beck Thursday: James Goes To High School
Boiling Springs High School was the newest, cleanest building in town.
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Harambe
“When did we get a new dog?” Amy said.
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Deep Cuts: War Songs
The challenge with creating a playlist of war songs is that there’s so damned many of them.
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A Memorial Day Story
They were a typical 1920s Iowa farm family with a bumper crop of sons who someday would provide free labor:
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