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Deadlights
Not only are the lights out, nobody’s card works. The credit card machines are all down. There are eight people in line. I am sure they all want to pay with cards. Everybody pays with card. I’m the only clerk this afternoon. Tina’s out. Again. Didn’t even call in. Just a no-show. If this isn’t […]
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Lovettsville
I believe in science. It is the only thing capable of answering all of our questions, given enough time. But I have wrestled, for decades at this point, with the memory of what took place in that upstairs room on a moonlit night, in a creaking old farmhouse far out in the Virginia countryside. Whatever […]
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Soul
I had not actually seen Simmons in person for about a year. The last time we spoke was during a flurry of research he had me do over the course of a couple of months, mostly dark web stuff, for which Simmons required my expertise. When I last saw him in person, he still looked […]