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BOOKS: Honey, by Victor Lodato
Help Me Make This Beautiful Novel as Famous As It Should Be
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May 2024

Vestiges, Echoes, and a Surge of Melancholia
I gave my mom the pink scarf in that picture.
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April 2024

I Want More (to be gotten gone)
Dealing with the accumulated too much muchness of our life
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The Road You Didn't Take
Not a day in my life goes by without a Sondheim lyric resonating
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I'm Still Here
Circles, Siblings, Surceases, & Sondheims
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October 2023

Third Person
Always the "other", but never significant
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April 2023

This too sullied flesh...
What's left when the temptation for which you've long prayed meets the flesh that is now flabby, enfeebled, and implacably, cantankerously flaccid?
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I WISH I COULD QUIT ...
I’m trying to post more but two days ago my laptop auto-updated, which I try NEVER to allow, because it is 11 years old and will NOT really process the…
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I'm Fine (But I'm so very not)
Covid, Genetics, Funny Girl, and Charlie's Turn
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January 2023

Readings: TAKE WHAT YOU NEED, by Idra Novey
Idra Novey, TAKE WHAT YOU NEED, by Idra Novey, Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House, expected publication March 2023
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Souvenirs - Chapter One
In which, upon being dumped, our hero examines the jigsaw puzzle of his soul; where missing pieces are both a presence and a promise.
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November 2022

Twitter me this . . .
I’ve worked very hard to construct a storyline in which I’m neither embarrassed nor sad that I clean houses and pet sit.
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