Category Archives: Fiction

Fred is a fictional character reporting from Fauxmont.

187. Of Books and Batteries

NOTE: If you haven’t been following this from the beginning, and if you want to know the full sequence of events, start with the introduction. Click on Archives on the right.  I find Daisy sitting in the Pie Shop with … Continue reading

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186. Under the Ashes

NOTE: If you haven’t been following this from the beginning, and if you want to know the full sequence of events, start with the introduction. Click on Archives on the right.  Even the cicadas are silent. There aren’t many in … Continue reading

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185. Images of Success

NOTE: If you haven’t been following this from the beginning, and if you want to know the full sequence of events, start with the introduction. Click on Archives on the right.  Steve Strether stands in the middle of Maxwell Avenue … Continue reading

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184. Racketeer

NOTE: If you haven’t been following this from the beginning, and if you want to know the full sequence of events, start with the introduction. Click on Archives on the right.  Phone in hand, Dimbleby Moreaboutcha is looking out over … Continue reading

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183. Emergence

NOTE: If you haven’t been following this from the beginning, and if you want to know the full sequence of events, start with the introduction. Click on Archives on the right.  Bel Vionnet lets the leash sag, as the sour … Continue reading

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182. Macadamia Moves In

NOTE: If you haven’t been following this from the beginning, and if you want to know the full sequence of events, start with the introduction. Click on Archives on the right.  Rank Majors and Kemp, Rombout stand behind the old … Continue reading

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181. Reality

NOTE: If you haven’t been following this from the beginning, and if you want to know the full sequence of events, start with the introduction. Click on Archives on the right.  Albrecht’s black Hummer stands out above the sedans in … Continue reading

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180. Meandering with Ossian

NOTE: If you haven’t been following this from the beginning, and if you want to know the full sequence of events, start with the introduction. Click on Archives on the right.  Deep purple clouds crowd low on the horizon, long and … Continue reading

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179. Purple Toadstool

NOTE: If you haven’t been following this from the beginning, and if you want to know the full sequence of events, start with the introduction. Click on Archives on the right. Diddlie’s black hoody is pulled down across her forehead keeping … Continue reading

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178. Oak Leaf

NOTE: If you haven’t been following this from the beginning, and if you want to know the full sequence of events, start with the introduction. Click on Archives on the right. It is dusk. I am sitting next to bel by … Continue reading

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177. Mythology

NOTE: If you haven’t been following this from the beginning, and if you want to know the full sequence of events, start with the introduction. Click on Archives on the right. Steve Strether wants to show me a Venetian Renaissance painting … Continue reading

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176. Ruins

NOTE:If you haven’t been following this from the beginning, and if you want to know the full sequence of events, start with the introduction. Click on Archives on the right. Ossian barks at the flashing blue lights and the hideous … Continue reading

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175. Picnic

NOTE: If you haven’t been following this from the beginning, and if you want to know the full sequence of events, start with the introduction. Click on Archives on the right. Daisy parks her shiny new car a few spaces away … Continue reading

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174. Scotch

NOTE:If you haven’t been following this from the beginning, and if you want to know the full sequence of events. The surface of Wicket Street has been ground down to the roadbed in preparation for repaving. The ditches are still … Continue reading

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173. Fish Weed

NOTE: If you haven’t been following this from the beginning, and if you want to know the full sequence of events. I see Albrecht walking towards me, having left his Hummer next door at the Light House Gas Station for servicing. … Continue reading

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172. Cure Mr. Liddell

NOTE: If you haven’t been following this from the beginning, and if you want to know the full sequence of events, start with the introduction. Click on Archives on the right. Lark Bunlush is walking ahead of me past the Rundstedt’s … Continue reading

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171. Muster the Mark!

NOTE:If you haven’t been following this from the beginning, and if you want to know the full sequence of events, start with the introduction. Click on Archives on the right. I am standing in the new, ‘Patio Bar’, off the … Continue reading

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170. Evaporation

NOTE:If you haven’t been following this from the beginning, and if you want to know the full sequence of events, start with the introduction. Click on Archives on the right. I Find Lou and Diddlie in the Quark Lounge discussing Armond Macadamia’s … Continue reading

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169. Ossian’s Inventory

Brown and yellow bungee cord about 6 ins long, with broken hook: one. About ten inches of black insulated wire attached to a broken piece of green plastic at one end with a ragged break at the other: one. A … Continue reading

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168. Ossian’s Knowledge

NOTE: If you haven’t been following this from the beginning, and if you want to know the full sequence of events, start with the introduction. Click on Archives on the right. Steve Strether stands outside his house holding his new … Continue reading

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