Stories tagged paris

The Dead in Paris, Complete

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Did we get Jihadi John?/ And the highway to Mosul?// What’s the score?

Ben Clarone: Prologue Part 2

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This was not the bar that the artist usually frequented.

Exploring Physics

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Our half-life, radioactive decay, particles shed leaving dust and bone."twilight years", "golden age", "evening of life"?Bullshit. I'm not ready to stop pumping high octane.You said, "I'll take you to Paris."Hemingway's address is still in your notebook, I saw it.I'll wear…

The Red Suitcase: Part 1

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He had become an accessory to a murder.

The Red Suitcase: (Conclusion)

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—You must be joking, he laughed.

Mrs. De Florian looks through a north-facing window

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In this the delicate memory through which the birds haunt the light, she knows she was not wounded by a rush of blood, but rather by the flight.

Beauty Fell Through the Roof

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Yet tenderness resided here among the canvases, the tubes of paint, brushes, and candle wax; the splatters of discarded ideas. We made love the way people said prayers

Call Me

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The woman took a small note card from her purse and wrote on it. She then stood, handed the card to the doctor, and said, “Call me.”

Part IV. Answers in Antarctica

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I didn’t think the waters of Antarctica would be so cold. This was yet more proof that even well-educated people like myself can be terribly dumb. I recall it all these decades later: staring up at a glacier large enough to hold a ski resort and thinking,