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davidbdale posted a blog entry
Unscheduled Stops
The 5:42 to Belgenhagen left the station without our engineer. He chased it desultorily to the end of the platform waving his...
The 5:42 to Belgenhagen left the station without our engineer. He chased it desultorily to the end of the platform waving his...
davidbdale posted a blog entry
A Christmas Sort of Story
You are not an accident, little one. You were in my care even before you were born. You have a place inside me still and always...
You are not an accident, little one. You were in my care even before you were born. You have a place inside me still and always...
davidbdale posted a blog entry
Middle of the Road
Halfway down the block from where we had just seen Uncle Mickey, Dad stopped the car and sat with his foot on the brake. He’d...
Halfway down the block from where we had just seen Uncle Mickey, Dad stopped the car and sat with his foot on the brake. He’d...
davidbdale posted a blog entry
Going in Hope
Where we live, the troopers are always on call, even if their kids are in the patrol car with them on their way to the shoe...
Where we live, the troopers are always on call, even if their kids are in the patrol car with them on their way to the shoe...
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An Hour with the Ogre
We sit at a table in The Glade, a room named for the sappy paintings of pastoral scenes on its walls. Their grasses and trees...
We sit at a table in The Glade, a room named for the sappy paintings of pastoral scenes on its walls. Their grasses and trees...
davidbdale posted a blog entry
Leaving Miller’s Farm
The children want to learn from me, but not until they know I’m someone with a knowledge. You’ll see at the assembly the...
The children want to learn from me, but not until they know I’m someone with a knowledge. You’ll see at the assembly the...
davidbdale posted a blog entry
The Gallagher-von-Durfeldoms
We are the family of everyone who means us no harm, whatever the results of what they do. We love Pizza Friday, snow days, and...
We are the family of everyone who means us no harm, whatever the results of what they do. We love Pizza Friday, snow days, and...
davidbdale posted a blog entry
An Offering
—Nevertheless you did kill him?—I was present at his death.—Present with a knife.—Mine was not the only hand on that...
—Nevertheless you did kill him?—I was present at his death.—Present with a knife.—Mine was not the only hand on that...
davidbdale posted a blog entry
Under the Bed
I had no magic as a child. I would have used it if I had, to stop the Boots from kicking me where I hid. Flat against the...
I had no magic as a child. I would have used it if I had, to stop the Boots from kicking me where I hid. Flat against the...
davidbdale posted a blog entry
Salt Toast
In photos of my daughter’s wedding, I look thinner than I was and not at all as if I wanted to strangle the groom. There...
In photos of my daughter’s wedding, I look thinner than I was and not at all as if I wanted to strangle the groom. There...
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Separate Trains
They looked married. In what they took for granted, the other riders saw they had been together forever. He read the map of the...
They looked married. In what they took for granted, the other riders saw they had been together forever. He read the map of the...
davidbdale posted a blog entry
Clarity
The Computative Assistant to the Acting Vice-Director of Apportionment Compliance for the local subdistrict stopped counting....
The Computative Assistant to the Acting Vice-Director of Apportionment Compliance for the local subdistrict stopped counting....
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