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Announcement

Publishing is like waking up on the sidewalk and your pants are gone.

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Faye.3
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Faye.3

She’s not yer basic fictional character. Nope.

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Faye.2
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Faye.2

Faye lives in a sinking houseboat near a Truck Stop bar

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Kansaw
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Kansaw

Foundation formed-up, but I don’t have the walls poured yet

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Jailene
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Jailene

Jailene can definitely speak for herself.

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D.C. Chester
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D.C. Chester

The cemetery is directly across this abandoned section of Hwy 20

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Rigo
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Rigo

Rigo is skilled enough to re-point this kind of masonry; it is not his only skill.

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Skinny Boy
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Skinny Boy

A better pet-owner story won’t be written not nohow.

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Piaf
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Piaf

Sylvia Beach isn’t a place name.

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Hate Crime Elegance
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Hate Crime Elegance

I didn’t hear what The New Yorker’s Editor yelled. I think it was “Warning, Will Robinson. Warning!

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Bob and Dylan
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Bob and Dylan

If you think Warren Zevon accented the last syllable of his name, you won’t understand Bob or Dylan.

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N3
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N3

This kid has been tasked with the supervision of the writing of N3; call him “Redactor”.

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