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Penmanship
At the vaccination site where I volunteered, I was tasked with prefilling a card with the initials of the vaccine, the date, the site of the vaccination, and some other code that I never bothered to ask about but will never forget. I wrote this information over and over, perhaps a thousand times. And at…
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Just Bleed
Today I assembled syringes for seven hours in a tent in the parking lot of the Alamodome. Now my brain is a squid in a stryofoam cup, left in the car all day. The last thing I want to do is write, but I suppose I have to. I worked next to a nice lady.…
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Fiction and Objective Fact
I’ve been listening to an audiobook rendition of Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year. What would strike anyone living today is the similarities — and differences –of societal and cultural responses between seventeenth century London and our current pandemic. We see the same forms of panic, denial, conspiracy theories and general promiscuity of…
The Whale Belly 