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Nocturnal

The Missourian With Jason and Ed

I was working at The Missourian again. Again, I didn’t write a single story—just could not get myself interested in reporting. It has been like this in all my dreams of returning to my first newspaper job. I think I usually have these dreams when I’m nervous
27 Jun 2026 2 min read
Nocturnal

Like a Movie

Email to Linda Beaver — There was a story in my dreams last night that played like a movie. I want to write it down, and since you were one of the actors, it seems only fair to make you read it—I mean let you read it. A small, poor
27 Jun 2026 6 min read
Nocturnal

The Six Brothers

[ Image: url.jpg ] I was at home again—Holiday Ranch. All eight of us siblings were there, hanging around in the kitchen. Conversation and everyone in a merry mood, as if it were a holiday.1 Dad was content but not saying much, not a dominant force, not a large
27 Jun 2026 3 min read
Nocturnal

Wiffle Ball Improv

[ Image: wiffleball.png ] [ Image: wiffleball.png ] From an email to Rob—You and I and two others were trying to get good as a wiffle ball team. We were working from a wiffle ball script you had written. We would meet once a week to rehearse. The place we met
27 Jun 2026 3 min read
Fiction

Brothers at War

The brothers have been fighting and bickering since childhood. The older one was too stern and critical, the younger one too reckless and goading. “You boys used to be such buddies,” says their mother. “Before he became an asshole,” says the young one. “Before he became a total jackass,” says
25 Jun 2026 4 min read
People

The Tango Instructor

Last night Laura Wolf and I took a tango lesson at her health club on 43rd Street. Four couples, taught by an Argentine pair who struggled charmingly to express themselves in English. He had trouble with words like “elbow” and keeping one’s arms “level.” Nevertheless, he managed to get
25 Jun 2026 1 min read
People

On the Beach

Joe and I saw a terrible thing one Saturday at the beach. A man who had been diving off a friend’s shoulders into the shallow water was suddenly being carried up onto the sand by five people. They set him down and he didn’t move. Within a minute
25 Jun 2026 2 min read
People

Lou of Canarsie

On subway met Lou, a Canarsie man, late 30s, disappointed he didn’t achieve success in show business 10 or 15 years ago. Wanted to be in “sports entertainment”—something like Lou Ferrigno, whose neighborhood he lives in. “I hang out with the guys he used to know and I
25 Jun 2026 1 min read
People

A Lady Bum

Sunday morning at Wendy’s restaurant at Allegheny Center, Pittsburgh. A woman about 50, long gray hair, having coffee with an old gentleman. She says she’s poor, but Jesus will reward her—by granting her the desires of her heart. Her talk is constantly of “The Lord.”  Old Guy
25 Jun 2026 1 min read
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