It rained. There was no point in trying to approach the nearby village, for the flooding had snapped the bridge in half and roads were becoming indistinguishable from the mud that was seeping everywhere. Jay was lying in his hammock, thinking about whether or not the case of whiskey would be enough to survive the more »

It had been going on for years and yet I could not help falling in love with her. She was never there, but somewhere else. I was here and sometimes looking for her. Of course we spoke on the phone at times, but even that required some preparation, so that she wouldn’t be in a more »

She arrives late. Actually she’s not arriving yet, but encircling the skies near Helsinki and wishing the damn thing would land. Little did she know that the throwers were on sit-down strike and would only throw a bag or two every hour, and only if they conformed with the international baggage handling code of practice.

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Simple man

We called her Jade, obviously because her interests lie in things ancient and buried from view. Jade was the odd biker girl on the campus, visible like an orange in the first snow. She used the same library with us, but her books carried layers of dust worthy of carbon dating.

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