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The Cowboy From La Mancha
It took those geniuses at the LAPD a week to figure out that I was the one behind Pop’s last ride but Dad always was a private man. There were no scrapbooks in his house with pictures of me and Mom… more »
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Embracing the Grey
theprestidigitator wrote 3 months ago: Why is the world so full of people? They disgust me. I disgust myself. I ran arou … more »
Maybe in the Morning
theprestidigitator wrote 3 months ago: A trail of glittering fragments drew the passerby’s brisk eyes to this bench where the hours r … more »
The Incident With The Steak
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Rodger Jacobs wrote 5 months ago: Hal could not have known that his dinner date was a vegan, though he did note that Suzanne was scowl … more »
The Incident With Gregory Peck's Cigarette Case
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Rodger Jacobs wrote 5 months ago: An evening at the theater, for Hal, represented two hours better spent in a creaky dentist’s c … more »
The Tarzan Incident
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Rodger Jacobs wrote 5 months ago: The trouble began with a peculiar joke that Ozzie manufactured one evening over dinner with his … more »
Bukowski in Space
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Rodger Jacobs wrote 5 months ago: In 1990, the year that Iraq invaded Kuwait and Nelson Mandela was released from a South African pris … more »
West of Westport
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Rodger Jacobs wrote 5 months ago: Part 5 of “Alabaster Christ”. Read the whole novella here. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ … more »
Poe Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
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Rodger Jacobs wrote 5 months ago: Part 4 of “Alabaster Christ”. Read the whole novella here. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ … more »
Alabaster Christ
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Rodger Jacobs wrote 5 months ago: Part 2 of “Alabaster Christ”. Read the whole novella here. Poe was drunk again. The word … more »
God Disappears
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Rodger Jacobs wrote 5 months ago: “Because,” the young pastor sighed, “God has disappeared.” He made a righ … more »
Dick Tracy
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Rodger Jacobs wrote 6 months ago: Richard Tracy always wanted to be called Dick Tracy but somehow the name never stuck. Friends and f … more »
White Noise
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Rodger Jacobs wrote 6 months ago: “Are you coming to bed?” she called, tossing the paperback she was reading onto the beds … more »
Alonzo's Radio
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Rodger Jacobs wrote 6 months ago: “Not much left of him, is there?” “No there isn’t, Sarge.” “All … more »
A Constellation of Emotions
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Rodger Jacobs wrote 6 months ago: It was a neighborhood bar on Gower Street in Hollywood, shoved into an aging split-level strip m … more »
The Cowboy From La Mancha
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Rodger Jacobs wrote 1 year ago: It took those geniuses at the LAPD a week to figure out that I was the one behind Pop’s last ride … more »
A Hard-Boiled Christmas
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Rodger Jacobs wrote 1 year ago: L.A. is no place for someone as sensitive as a classics professor. It was 6:15 PM on Christmas Day. … more »
Algebra in the Hollywood Hills
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Rodger Jacobs wrote 1 year ago: Before speaking to Karl, the scruffy coyote scratched behind his ear and then casually sniffed at a … more »
Searching For "The Poet"
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Rodger Jacobs wrote 1 year ago: Some people get compulsive about the series finale of their favorite TV show. I get compulsive about … more »
Cellular
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Rodger Jacobs wrote 2 years ago: “Listen to yourself, Norman. Listen to how jaded you’ve become.” “I’m not jaded!” Norma … more »
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