microbiologist – telephone – hidden – bystander – trench inside – international – shoe – heights – persuade And so he sat and he thought, his emotion...
Drama In and Out of the Lab
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A Family Mystery Uncovered
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Sunday – secret – wallpaper – swap – sister curiosity – island – notebook – marathon – demand Of the group that people referred to as “the Talberts,”...
Moment of Promise
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If anyone else had been there, or if anyone had even come by, I wouldn’t have been the state I was in. It’s only through the hours of solitary studying, where the content is ungraspable and so is the...
A Strange Request at a Piano Bar
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carnival – sprained – mask – oxidation – awkward apple – juvenile – controversy – twirl – sassafras It was a new bar in town, despicable name...
Suspension and Redemption
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The well-mannered sophisticate you’ve come to know to be the author of these whimsical anecdotes actually shares the tarnished record of his subjects, as you may have suspected. All the aliases in...
Kissing Rock and Other Neighbourhood Tales
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I’ll be brief: when I was eight, girls in my class broke into my house while my family was on vacation. It’s difficult to precisely mark the origin of my ego, but a psychologist’s guess could place...
A Dance in the Dark
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This is a story of one of my many entrepreneurial efforts, a story of optimism, nostalgia. This is the story of how I planned, paid for, and hosted a blacklight dance in my home town the summer after...
Never Kiss on a Cold Day
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In tenth grade, I had a lunchtime booty call, of sorts. It didn’t end well. This is the story of messy pubescent energy. One of my many escapades that wasn’t like the movies. First, you...
Problem With Authority
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I knew the officer was going to pin me with a ticket for not having lights on my bike, and that is why I found myself fleeing from his patrol SUV across campus. I had been studying late in the...
Cope With What?
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Remember assemblies? Assemblies were fine in elementary school but I mainly thought of them as a bore. In high school I liked them because they meant getting out of class. As I’m thinking back, it...