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		<title>New Project: Strangers in the Brain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve started a serialized novel called Strangers in the Brain. It&#8217;s going to update once a week in handy bite-sized chunks. It has its own website, which is here.]]></description>
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		<title>The One That Got Away</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now it&#8217;s raining and I&#8217;m covered in seaweed. I say &#8220;shit&#8221; and flick the lure back to the ocean. My son caught a ten-pound bass here last week. He called to tell me and then he hung up. That seemed petty. This is the fifth day I have come here and brought this canoe out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Snare Drum</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On the second Monday morning after failing the police department entrance exam, Donnie was staring at people at work. He was supposed to be saying “Hello, welcome to Best Buy!” but found himself slack-jawed and unable to form words. He figured this would be all right for one workday, at least; as long as his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Pillow Fight</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I like to imagine that our apartment was once adjoining broom closets until someone realized you could fit a kitchen counter into one of them and a mattress into the other. Our ceiling lamps, one in each room, jumped right out of a &#8217;40s noir, complete with periodic buzzing, swinging and flickering. Somtimes I like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Floating on the Lake in a Small Canoe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To what purpose a canoe? To Harris, twofold (therefore nuanced) in its failure, until the moment it capsizes. The purpose of this writing exercise is to imitate the stylistic technique of an established writer (postmodern author John Barth; story &#8220;Lost in the Funhouse&#8221;) towards personal stylistic gain. Other generations of writers transcribed short excerpts of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kybard.com/?p=29</link>
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		<title>Spirals</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was a late Sunday afternoon, just on the verge of evening, but the sun was still up outside the McDonald’s restaurant, and many of the ceiling lights along the outer walls were turned off. The main dining area of the McDonald’s was small but cozy; the few walls that weren’t thick glass softly reflected [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Wife Died Six Months Ago</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Oh, my. Look at his eyes. I love looking into the eyes of little puppies. My daughter Alice, when she was seven, she told me she thought their eyes looked look so sad all the time, so big and wet. Me, I think they’re just perfect. Beady, misty little bulbs of innocence, you know? Makes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kybard.com/?p=27</link>
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		<title>Wilted</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t really like to write poetry, but I have written some, mostly for class assignments. Here&#8217;s a poem of mine I found recently; I wrote it a few years ago. It&#8217;s a sonnet. * * * Her ignorance a rose, her sweetness found - His scent appealed to her, too strong fragrance, Dancing around [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kybard.com/?p=26</link>
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		<title>Harry Potter Book Covers!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There has been a Photoshop contest over the past few days at Pointless Waste of Time. The goal is to create alternate covers for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, for those men who want to buy it but don&#8217;t want to be embarrassed if they&#8217;re caught reading it. These are covers for fictional books [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kybard.com/?p=25</link>
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		<title>Elizabeth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our eyes tangle from across the table. It&#8217;s not a long table &#8212; you try fitting long furniture into a one-bedroom apartment where the kitchen doubles as the living room &#8212; but it&#8217;s long enough for the moment to make me feel like a billionaire whose trophy wife sits on the other side of an [...]]]></description>
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