All good stories are fictional.

If reality TV were really reality, every show would be like surveillance tape. Each episode would be 24 hours of people biting …

Wilbur Morris, Sentimental Bum.

One of the benefits of being broke is that I no longer have to puzzle over whether or not to …

teenage years in south florida during the housing boom.

There was also the remarkable quiet, such that if a Maltese barked softly at one side of the neighborhood, it would wake up the leathery middle-aged divorcee sunning at the community pool on the other.

the ugliness of the created world.

A fly’s life is entirely filth. He and all nature’s other decomposers are there to remove out of sight what you can’t bear to look at. They’re a lot like funeral directors, in that way.

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