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CALLED BUT NOT CHOSEN
Summer 2003
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Ethel the Gin Drinker
Summer 2001
Ethel's a nice dark-brown black gal who likes to drink gin in Wally's room. The reason she likes to drink gin in Wally's room is because it's Wally's gin.
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Seeking Heaven
Spring 1997
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A Moonwalk Memory
Fall 1995
It was Sunday evening, and I was fixing to go shave (what with having a two days growth of beard) and shower, before I went downstairs to the laundry/tv room to do my wash.
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The In-The-World Christian
Summer 1994
Like Hamlet, at midnight, / Clad in suit and cloak of black, / Awaiting his father’s ghost to appear, / To begin his story:
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Mission: Search and Do Good
Spring 1994
“Is this a scroo I see before me?” I asked, like some ham actor doing a poor improvisation of Macbeth's famous line, as I bent to pick up a screw in a shopping area parking lot.
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Thank You, Mister Hangus
Summer 1993
One November morning in Chicago, when I was staying with my brother Don and his family in an apartment above a saloon called Broadway Joe's, I woke up and said, "Out there, somewhere, there is a story; I will go and see what it is."
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Remembering You
Winter 1992
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A Day Prayer
Spring 1992
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Day Work
Fall 1991
This time I was dispatched to Fred Harvey’s at Lake Forest. I sat next to a fellow, name of Steve, in a van that was carrying a group of us, not all going to the same place.
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Somebody’s Always Stealing Swede’s Shoes
Summer 1990
