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Accessing Art
Hi, no fiction this week but instead an obvious thing I should have done years ago: put my drawings onto t-shirts, hoodies and paraphernalia. Here is…
Sep 16, 2022
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Caleb Garling
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Quillbot's Tomatoes
My daughter runs to the garden for her tomatoes. Over her shoulder she tells me I am allowed to see them--though I planted them--if I keep them secret…
Sep 1, 2022
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Caleb Garling
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June 2022
The Mail
They arrive just after the mail slides into my basement. Gruesome, pieces that portend the ends, pieces that illuminate the furnace with a band of…
Jun 2, 2022
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Caleb Garling
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May 2022
A Terrible Movie
In the movie the woman leaves the man because he will not let her sit on his face anymore and she cannot fathom why that would be, sex was the last good…
May 25, 2022
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Caleb Garling
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January 2022
The Rain, That Drummer
The rain, that drummer, I tried to hear between the taps. The sound of the rain needs no translation, a talk said once quoting a monk long passed. Did I…
Jan 7, 2022
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Caleb Garling
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December 2021
A High Adjective Diet
The general store in my town has two sliding doors. When the children get muddy at the river they will press their lips against the glass. One will wave…
Dec 9, 2021
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Caleb Garling
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The Price of Gas
I set the price of gas. I sit between the woman who approves the cause of thunder and the team for missing circuits. A cloth wall separates our desks…
Dec 3, 2021
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Caleb Garling
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November 2021
Line in the Lawn
I was pushing the mower around the telephone poll when he blazed across the grass. Do me a favor, he said and I said, I don’t have the rest of your…
Nov 18, 2021
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Caleb Garling
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Mint
I always knew mint was the enemy. Growing against the raised beds, with garlic and beans inside. Pond in the background. Mint was an enemy in the way…
Nov 8, 2021
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Caleb Garling
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August 2021
Four Treasures
They locked me in a tower at the edge of town, in a cell on the fifth floor, Fifth Before Sixth was the motto of our town, and roomed me with a man…
Aug 25, 2021
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Caleb Garling
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All The Round Keys
I said that word to my brother’s analyst, multimodal, and she thought I was reciting marketing jargon for big computers, the kinds that think with…
Aug 21, 2021
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Caleb Garling
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Breakdown
My home is on my back and my back is broken so I lay aside the dusty trail and leak oil, I leak oil onto the bright asphalt. The child runs out the door…
Aug 4, 2021
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Caleb Garling
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