Stories tagged names

Fragment of an Early Novel of the 21st Century

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But, as his mind twisted like a square peg beating a hole into a round mallet, he sensed it had something to do with penguins. Not that he knew anything about penguins, at that point in time. That would come later, in his days, after this history, where h

Language

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Your name is a word that means everything at once.

A Few Good Band Names

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The Counter Where Names Go To Die

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One day a woman, one of several translators at Ellis Island, asks him why he has changed a passenger’s name from Checzowicz to something else. “The name was too long,” he says. “Ten letters.” She replies, “But you didn’t change O’Shaughnessy, and it has

Losses

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Each day, I lose more words-/ nouns and verbs- but especially// proper names. People and places

In The Garden of Unclaimed Urns

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The world has a way of losing its keys; forgetting its late condolences.