Category Archives: Fiction

Fred is a fictional character reporting from Fauxmont.

149. Mr. Liddell’s Friends and Relations

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 is looking down into her own shadow as we … Continue reading

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148. Seeing

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. The seventeen-year cicadas are singing outside and their growing volume … Continue reading

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147. Crossing the Pond

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 standing with Boyd before a huge puddle, … Continue reading

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146. Long Walk

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145. Doors at The Elegant Ostrich

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. Paula Pocock is looking in the window of the Elegant … Continue reading

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144. Reality Check

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 has invited me to a risky, socially distanced performance, … Continue reading

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143. The Other Room

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. The line outside the Post Office extends into the parking … Continue reading

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142. Time’s Twist

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 joins me at the crosswalk.  Maxwell Avenue is busy … Continue reading

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141. Breaking Glass

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 is pushing bottles and jars thru a hole in … Continue reading

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140. Fast Bugs on the Milkweed

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. Serge sits at a table outside The Pie Shop with … Continue reading

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139. Cello in the Bathtub

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138. Food for Thought

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. Lou’s deck looks out towards tall green bamboo, dense and … Continue reading

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137. Lines

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. Artie Bliemisch, dressed in black sweats, sits alone at a … Continue reading

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136. The Signs of the Times

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 stands outside the Elegant Ostrich Gift Shop, watching … Continue reading

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135. Signat/Seurat

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. A small rectangle frames the image of bel Vionnet’s plump … Continue reading

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134. Gassed

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133. Sophonisba

133. Sophonisba 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. Lou’s fondue party started at Daisy’s suggestion, as … Continue reading

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132. Compost

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. Mr. Fawkes’s white van was backed up askew and … Continue reading

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131. Let it Pass

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130. Horse Chestnuts

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 sits with his feet up on the chair … Continue reading

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