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Diastema
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When the dentist labeled the marked gap between my two front teeth as “diastema,” I didn’t quite get it, thinking that he had said diaspora. After the confusion lifted, we both chuckled as I explained to this 38- year-old Mormon dentist what the diaspora was, it too, in its way, a marked gap. Here I am correcting at […]
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Sandpapering
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March and April have been good months for my writing. David Herrle, editor of Subtletea magazine, accepted a blog, which I revised, on first person writing (see it below). And when I sent him a copy of “Archipelago,” a perverse fantasy story, he accepted that as well. The story is one of a collection I […]
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Freud in Auschwitz
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Jane suggested that I write about Freud’s possible take on the Holocaust. Exemplary idea! So I came up with the title you see above. I have not come up with a story. The self-fantasy is that it would make an avant garde or modernistic short story but the reality is that I may lack the […]
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Hard Put
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I am hard put to explain Ann Coulter’s race hatred as recently expressed to a Muslim woman student in Canada in which she suggested if the student could not get a cab she should take a camel. (Of course, in a recent column by her Coulter wraps herself in the issue of free speech but does […]