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Smithfield News is Open Christmas Eve
Continue reading: Smithfield News is Open Christmas EveLast Christmas Eve, John and I were closing servers. After we finished, we left the restaurant in search of a downtown Pittsburgh bar still open past eleven. We found one in old Chinatown, but when we walked in there were no patrons. The barmaid anxiously washed pint glasses. The waning moments of the Hawai’i Bowl…
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Cousin Kay
Continue reading: Cousin KayKay read the notice announcing the wake in the morning paper, while drinking a very bitter coffee. The deceased was known to her by name only, but it was an old and familiar name, attached to an aristocratic line that Kay respected. A fever hospital in her small hometown, in fact, shared the name. She…
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One of Those People
Continue reading: One of Those PeopleAn excerpt from ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE, a graphic memoir.
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On the Disney Cruise, an Employee Gives You Another Passenger’s Room Number and Name
Continue reading: On the Disney Cruise, an Employee Gives You Another Passenger’s Room Number and NameA Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2016.
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Knaves & Whoresons
Continue reading: Knaves & Whoresons“I suicide, I suicide!” he cried out, en pointe, as if strung up by an invisible rope lashed to a rafter in the heaven of the homeless shelter. His hands collared his strangulated neck, a frill of starched fingers…