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Yeah, so when Bill was at school in Northern California he would tell me about the strange people he met there—freaks, the lot of them, like guys who molested dogs and wore black cloaks, guys who followed Satan but preached to strangers like they were Hare Krishna. Bill swore that Northern California was unlike Southern California in almost every way possible, and I can agree to some point. For instance, the north tends to be more liberal in politics, while…

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Apparently I giggle when I sleep. Tense with a headache and too exhausted to do much else, I fell asleep while getting my neck massaged and ended up time traveling again. This time I went a mere two hours into the future with my friends to attend a dinner party, and as we waited for the food we watched a gray-striped kitten hang upside down from a ceiling fan like some circus performer. I giggled myself half-awake at the kitten’s…

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My cousin Zee, the movie star, can beat up your cousin Zee, the nobody. Last year my good friend Janine sent me one of those chain letter e-mail forward things that either promise undying puppy love or eternal blue-ball celibacy, one that listed a lot of personal questions and her own answers to each of them. I was supposed to replace her answers with mine and send it back to her, as well as to a whole new list of…

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Over 10 years ago, I subscribed to Writer’s Digest, and I would sometimes enter their monthly contest. The assignment for March in 1992 was to write a short piece in which the first sentence dictates how the next sentences begin. For instance, the second sentence starts with the second word in the first sentence; the third sentence starts with the third word in the first sentence; the fourth sentence starts with the fourth word in the first sentence, etc. The…

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If you could type anything you wanted in the Google search form, what would you type? I typed “if you could” “what would you” and came up with some interesting questions: What would you plant if you could only plant 7 flowers? If you could relive your life over again, what would you change? If you could have an author (or two) over for dinner, what would you serve for dinner? If you could be a bird, what would you…

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