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"Best Gift Ever"
This segment was on NPR's "Marketplace" last night--comedian David Brenner's remembrance of the best gift he ever received. Quite a nice lesson.
December 16, 2003 in Memoir | Permalink
About Me
Reading
- Knut Hamsun: Tales of Love & Loss [BIO]
Listening
- Ted Leo: "Passion Is No Ordinary Word" [BIO]
Writing
- Wheatyard
(Kuboa Press) - "Prague, Oklahoma"
(Daddy Cool: An Anthology of Writing by Fathers For & About Kids) - "Pursuit"
(Skive) - "Mahalia"
(Midwestern Gothic) - "Tangled in Wishes"
(Journal of Microliterature) - "The Last Final Copy"
(On the Clock: Contemporary Short Stories of Work) - "Conned and Bruised"
(A Twist of Noir) - "One Son Resists"
(Green Lantern Press) - "Clean and Bright"
(Joyland) - "Button"
(Shoots and Vines) - "Alleys Are the Footnotes of the Avenues"
(Shoots and Vines) - "Moonlight"
(decomP) - "Quit These Hills"
(Big Pulp) - "Mercy Day"
(RAGAD) - "Deep in the Northwoods"
(Wheelhouse Magazine) - "Howard Holds Court"
(Birmingham Arts Journal) - "Waiting On a Train"
(RAGAD) - "Power"
(The Clarity of Night) - "Guaranteed"
(Spillway Review) - "Big Question"
(Boston Literary Magazine) - "This Time"
(55 Words) - "Immortality"
(THE2NDHAND) - "Freewheeling"
(Dogmatika) - "The Fixer"
(Gapers Block) - "Ralph's Last Call"
(The Angler) - "Can't Be Happy Today, But Tomorrow"
(Skive Magazine) - "Mighty Casey"
(Zisk) - "Ectoplasm"
(Storyglossia) - "Captions Without Photos"
(Gapers Block) - "Blown"
(Writer's Resource Center) - "Have A Pleasant Commute On Metra"
(This is Grand) - "The Retreat"
(monochrom) - Published Here:
"The Copper Responds"
"One Evening in St. Paul"
"The Lovely Miss Underwood"
"Insomnis"
"We Do Not Approve"
"The Ghoul's Evening Visit"
Various Microfiction
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