February 2012
3 posts
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[…] she’d expected to find an overheated nightclub of sleazy possibility like those scouted in her travel book, but the place was only another dimly-lit bar, mostly empty, with a pool table in the rear and Alice in Chains on a digital jukebox […]
Another fr. new thing, Kenya storiez
The boy said he’d killed a lion once. He was headed to the well to fetch water when his sister was sick with typhoid, and saw a lion drinking at the riverbed. He picked up the biggest rock he could find and threw it at the lion, hitting it squarely on its nose, which paralyzed it. Then he went over and stabbed it with the knife he kept in his belt for separating corded firewood bundles. It took...
Fr. edits of new thing
Soon his chequing account was brimming from a full slate of projects, and he burned through them, fueled by grocery store chardonnay, sheer momentum and a reluctance to think about anything else than money. He spent three weeks smoking weed in Atlanta with Jaleel White, better known as Steve Urkel from the ABC sitcom Family Matters; a first-person account of a wayward Christian’s brush with...