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(SATURDAY MORNING, 11 AM - THE NEXT DAY)    “Hello?”    “Hey, baby. It’s me. Listen, I’m sorry about last night.” She paused. “I really am.”    “Yeah, me too. My stereo is broken.” I replied. I caught my reflection in the mirror across the room. Staring at my own distant and somewhat mangled image, I spoke through a complex system of wires and telephone circuitry that I would likely never understand &mda...

Jail is a great place to read a book, if one is so inclined. In six days and nights, between tiny fits of semi-sleep in a room where the lights never dimmed; feeling healthier than he’d felt in months and finally safe from his true prison; clothed in neon orange from torso to tootsies and wrapped in a gray, cotton blanket; Burl Wonder read _The Broker_ by John Grisham, five times from start to finish, and finally felt free. _DJNG-KUHHH!_ The distant and frozen sound of a heavy, metal door fi...

Chapter 4 ooo THE VINEGAR TASTING ooo We see three men standing around a vat of vinegar. Each has dipped his finger into the vinegar and has tasted it… The first has a sour look on his face, the second wears a bitter expression, but the third man is smiling. -excerpt from The Tao of Pooh, by Benjamin Hoff ooo It had never occurred to me that I might have made some bad decisions. In fact, it seemed to me that I made relatively no decisions at all. I rolled through life, mostly, bouncing off ev...