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This is a bleak short short story about failed lives and middle age angst.
"We should have a lot of things," I said. "We've got too much of what we want and not enough of what we need."
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Antonin Artaud is a short fantasy about the man who identified the theater of cruelty.
"Artaud the quiet outlaw, the frenzied actor, the carrier of plague and deadly force…"
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The King Who Ruled Nothing is a whimsical parable about a cruel king who ended up a lonely pauper when his subjects stopped obeying his commands.
"The men think?" screamed the King. "What do I care what the men think? The men do not rule this kingdom—I do. Hang the men who will not fight."
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The Tunnel is a dream-like fantasy about fear, alienation and war in the suburbs from a young boy's point of view.
"Just before I got to the tunnel, all hell broke loose. The sky lit up along the horizon in the north like a fireworks display. I could hear the pounding of artillery and rocket fire and feel the vibration deep in my chest."
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Creative exercises (at least
they're short).
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Nightmare is a dream about nuclear war and its aftermath.
"I am gripped by terror, a premonition of physical mutilation, like a horrible slashing of my internal organs."
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