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Sixty Hours of Terror: “It’s Do or Die”
… Sixty Hours of Terror: “It’s Do or Die” Editor’s Note—This is part two of a four-part series [ … & Tower (Priyam Dhar). III. “It’s Do or Die” November 26, 2008. Late Night. Nariman House. Assistant Commissioner … of the complex, using maps to point out entry and exit points as gunshots above continued to ring out. No matter …
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My mom wrote a book about her second husband dying
… when I was feverish in a hotel. That time I cried a lot but also wasn’t thinking very straight. This time I’m thinking … love. So I’d seen her both really in love and grieving. The combination of these things I thought made us maybe … when it was over, she’d just wish to be waiting again. He died and she was right.              The pages of mourning …
Point Sur
Point Sur AS the spindrift and ring of fog blow out from the coast my father and I sit in the sand of a small cove, he breaking driftwood, building a miniature tee pee, writing in the sand: L A 300 →, while I read Robinson Jeffers on the fog, stone, …
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“I Have Decided Not to Die”
… “I Have Decided Not to Die” Armenian Golgotha, by Grigoris Balakian. Knopf, March … (a celibate priest) and scholar, was one of 250 intellectuals, writers, teachers, politicians, and prominent Armenians … deliberate and bureaucratically directed, the prototypical components of what Churchill would later call “a crime …
Dying In the Golden West
… table before her. “A man was playing chicken with the widebodies at LAX and was mutilated. They found his legs 200 yards … her shirt pocket and smiled. “I can’t resist,” she said. “Come on.” “What about that new car in the driveway? C. A. … because coconuts grow on trees, too, and they might also be fruits. “In Leisure World, at Laguna Niguel, a …
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Big Bird Died for Your Sins
… Big Bird Died for Your Sins   Barry was six-foot-six, fifteen like … dreaming drunk.  A crowd kept vigil on the beach. His compañero the catcher dove and dove again between the fins … from a cooler, I said: When my father told me Clemente died, there were tears in his eyes.   No one said anything, …
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