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Two Cats
Good Luck: Episode Thirty-Two Three in the morning, the back door opens, four people enter the dark house. Black jeans, boots, jackets, gloves, ski masks. Nothing said. They’ve been here before. The...
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Mystery
Good Luck: Episode Thirty My memories are locked up in a wooden house, each year growing and distorting. No roads or rails get there. The house is over the hills, and across a wide valley, past two...
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Claudius Jr.
Good Luck: Episode Twenty-Nine Hamlet wakes up in the underworld. He is up on stage. Act 1: Scene 1, Elsinore, the rampart walls of his familial Dutch castle, except something seems wrong. Part of...
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The Art of Homeostasis (for Stevie and Myles)
In quantum field theory, in my imperfect understanding of it, gleaned from YouTube, a physicist can make an atom vibrate on one level, like a violin string, as well as a neutrino on another level,...
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Beach Boys
Good Luck: Episode Twenty-Eight I was dreaming I was a Beach Boy, but now I’m home and I’ve given that up. I can hear the state flag of New Jersey whipping in the wind against the face of this...
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After Death Valley
Good Luck: Episode Twenty-Seven Most of the time when you see a piano you’re not allowed to play it, but you’re supposed to try, even if you don’t know how to play it. Or at least I’m asking you to,...
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William and Me
Good Luck: Episode Twenty-Six Well, it was a bad idea to wait to try and write this in the car, while all these beautiful things are flashing by outside. The last thing I want to be doing is looking...
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Trees
Good Luck: Episode Twenty-Five “When Henry Hudson sailed up through the Narrows between Long and Staten Islands in 1609 and anchored in the upper bay almost opposite old Communipaw, and he looked...
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Jane
Good Luck: Episode Twenty-Four My friend, the vampire, wanted to go to the vampire dance club in Newark, New Jersey. I said sure, even though I was not a vampire and didn’t dance. Turns out I was...
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Butterfly
Good Luck: Episode Negative One In the beginning, I got born. The doctor handed me to my mother and said good luck. I was crying. My father came in the room with a handlebar mustache, and my mother...
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Fish Hook
Good Luck: Episode Twenty-Two Your life is a house where you keep your memories. You built this house. Before you, and your memories, there was just a field here, with wild flowers and grass and...
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Rewrite
Good Luck: Episode Eighteen It was raining. I couldn’t leave work. The flash flood too deep to drive through, and I knew better. Another work emergency. Five of us in rain gear, hoods up over our...
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Block
Good Luck: Episode Seventeen This paragraph was written on a cellphone at my day job. With all the mess, and the noise, and the constant humming and slamming of million pound machines. I’ve run out...
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Salad
Good Luck: Episode Sixteen Rae said something. I couldn’t hear. 7th was too loud. She looked back over her shoulder to hear my answer, so I just said, “Yeah.” Her hair was getting long again, curled...
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Suicide in Bed
Good Luck: Episode Fifteen We’re watching the movie The Apartment. Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine. We’re watching it because I didn’t know what an apartment was. Didn’t I feel stupid when I found...
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Little Guy
Good Luck: Episode Fourteen Mom is the little guy. The youngest. Then Jonathan is born and he becomes the little guy. Seven kids. Jonathan, Robin, Lee, Elaine, Billy, Jefferey, Sandy, all of them...
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Art
Good Luck: Episode Thirteen First I want to say, art is done in a small room to make it big. Then I want to say, you’re going to die, you’ll need a distraction. Then I want to also say, art eats a...
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Grasshopper
Good Luck: Episode Twelve [What follows is a transcript of a talk by Bud Smith given at McNally Jackson Books in NYC on Saturday, January 19th, 2019] I didn’t know what I was going to say here...
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Bullfrog
Good Luck: Episode Eleven Our cacti can’t stand on their own anymore. We’ve braced them with toothpicks. I was gifted a ceramic lemon and a resin flamingo leaning left. They’re here on my bamboo...
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Melissa
Good Luck: Episode Ten Driving through the night. A dark road. Melissa was in the backseat, holding my friend’s hand. I was up in the passenger seat, newly low. She’d stopped fucking me, now they were...
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