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Four Stories
One day the cocoon hatched. But there was no butterfly. Instead, hundreds and hundreds of baby praying mantes spread across my dresser top and marched down the side.
October 1990Sunbeams
September 1990What is uttered from the heart alone will win the hearts of others to your own.
Dignity And Other Staples
Eating In The Soup Kitchens Of Seattle
On my rounds of the soup kitchens, I learned more than fine distinctions among bad foods. I learned the patience engendered by interminable waiting. I learned the deferential glance, a useful grace that gets one past the guards unchallenged.
September 1990Visitors
Sharing C rations, picking up where you left off, stealing forbidden knowledge
August 1990Sunbeams
July 1990It is not hard to live through a day, if you can live through a moment. What creates despair is the imagination, which pretends there is a future, and insists on predicting millions of moments, thousands of days, and so drains you that you cannot live the moment at hand.
Bobo And The Devil
Bobo looked up. The devil took the opportunity to slip out of his grasp and go rest by the wall. He had a huge black cloak, and purple sneakers, and came across as very urbane, but he bit in close situations. Bobo had learned to avoid his teeth.
July 1990
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