exactly the wrong direction

"Exactly the Wrong Direction," October 26, 2022 (#299)

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Exactly the Wrong Direction

It was pathetic really, full of clichés and tired devices, prejudice and

I shut my eyes and I turn my mind to my most distant memories in

a Swallow: a woman who uses her God-given talents to gain information—

but first and foremost, I wanted police reports and trial transcripts,

threatened the success of the birth control movement. That meant

it stops them constantly coming back for more. I can’t tell you how

he has an old truck and sells ice cream, candy, and soda, mostly to

a familiar presence now, with his powerful, shiny bald head and his leather

realm of ideas. She even admitted to me that earlier, as we were drinking,

I knew the spot: a squat yellow brick building with a royal blue hand-painted sign

safeguarding him from another potential violation. And third, there’s no sign

to replace the writing, to find someone else. And I was the only person who

cannot do without. The minute you pass the point when you think there is,

there was no way of getting into the living room without breaking the windows.

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