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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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