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You were twelve years old when you first read Franny & Zooey, sitting in the bathtub until your fingers and toes became shriveled like little prunes and you couldn’t stop shivering. You caught a cold. If you could have been anyone, you would have been the eighth Glass child.

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Stories written with Portland Fiction Project

All This Still Doesn’t Mean My Heart’s Not In It	Chili
Tonight I Found Empathy For Your Depression	Chocolate
Missus Moore, Mi Amore	Wax
Do You Want To See A Naked Woman?	Razor
Ask Me	Occupation
The Strangest, Most Amazing Thing I’ve Seen All Day	Hair
Your Taste In Books Is Only Exceeded By Your Propensity To Break Men’s Hearts	Massage
People Call	Bouquet
Too Soon Douglas	Collage
Too Far Douglas	Symphony
Home, Son, and Don’t Spare the Horses	Touchpad
Outside A Mother & Inside A Child	Remote
You Don’t Bring a Raincoat to a Phonecall	Quest
Ten Thousand Hours	Crusade
Raymond Carver’s Grave	Vision
Another Spin with Corinne	Stultify
Something With Milk and Chocolate	Salacious
Pathos	Lugubrious
Love is a Red Herring	Implacable
You Never Know What You’ve Got Until It’s Gone	Freckled
The Telephone Rings Again	"I’ve Lost You" "morning" "receive" "kind" "crucial" "bees"
The Telephone Rings	"You will be no friend of mine" "calling" "shadow" "distance" "future" "deep"
Laid and Lain	"a thousand people just like me" "island" "teeth" "shame" "wrong" "underground"
Eunuch	"I am still here two days later" "remain" "reflect" "wrong" "village"
Boy Likes A Girl (Night of Sad Countenance)	Tan
Die My Heart & Hope To Cross (Part 2)	Slavery
Die My Heart & Hope To Cross	Serenity
Pink Plastic Bag	Wealth
This Never Happened	Cookout
More Funny	Purgatory
Funny	Séance
Goodbye for Tonight and Tomorrow	Alaska
Lawnmower & Even More Expletives	Bonfire
Lawnmower & Other Expletives	Mars
Wherever We Went, Including Here	Disco
Because That’s the Kind of Jew Jesus Is	Jungle
Christmas With Kerouac	Prejudice
How Edgar Found A Nickel	Ego
I Say Falafel, You Say Calzone	Speed
German Boots	Tears
Henry Chinaski & Maggie May With a Parrot on Her Shoulder	Zit
Romance & Mystery	Reindeer
Sad Sacks Smoke Salems	Suicide
Polly Esther’s Sweater	Drink
Blind Girl	Depression
Metamorphosis	Secession
Neuterfamilias, or "Uncle"	Revolution
Last Year’s Television Is Tomorrow’s Bride	Election
Love, Beauty And Truth	Assassination
Abracadabra	Sissy
My Funny Valentine	Tame
Like A Python Over Quicksand	Obvious
Nesting Doll	Vegas
If I Were Cloven Hoofed There’d Be No Problem	Expectation
A Woman’s Name In A Boy’s Mouth With A Man’s Cheek	Pyramid
Prelude To A Proposal, or Popcorn & Porn	Mudslide
The Magic Couch	Flood
Ladykiller	Monsoon
The Method	Hurricane
Safety or You Can’t Love Everyone	Bikini
Everybody’s Family in the Movies	Beach House
Punch & Judy	Motorcycle
What Accounts For Accountability Around Here	Tattoo
Still Singing Limbs	Surfboard
Chicken Pox Isn’t Just For Chickens	Aramis
Norman Mailer Isn’t Dead	Huey
Patty-Cake	Moe
This Was How It Happened	Saints
Rufus	Ants
Giorgio’s	Orders
There In The Window For All To See	Band
Keep the Bed Sheets Knotted	Earth
Where I’m Coming From	Water
Payment Due When Services Rendered	Air
Where We Go From Here	Fire
The Rat	Rat
In The Middle of All This	Dragon
His Town	Snake
See No Evil	Monkey
What Time Is It There?	Flatter
She’s Gone	Bemuse
I Don’t Need Glasses To See How Much I Love You	Tickle
Thaw	Ice
How To Read a Story	Note
Tolstoy’s Head	Marble

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