Stephen R. Wagner's Blog, page 40
June 16, 2015
I THINK I WILL STOP HERE, FOR NOW
I think I will stop here, for now I have posted approximately half the story, as it now stands. And it has been an interesting process for me. I have enjoyed it. But I must now go offline and finish the second half of the story in secrecy. When it is done, and ready for […]
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June 14, 2015
Story Excerpt#43
The funny thing about evading death, is that after you do it, you cannot help but be conscious of the fact that death shall at some point try again. That it will return for you. You must be aware of this and come to terms with it. But, for all of the darkness and violence […]
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June 11, 2015
Story Excerpt#42
I was eating lunch alone at a picnic table in one of the parks I visit. I was halfway through eating the slices I had cut from a slab of imported goat cheese. I had dipped each slice in a light raspberry sauce and then placed them on plain white crackers, rows of which I […]
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Story Excerpt#41
Sometimes I feel that no matter where I am, or what I am doing, I am, in some way, heading towards the hospital.
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Story Excerpt#40
In the morning, I ate a quick bowl of hempen granola with water, as there was no milk. (It is, anyway, a good idea to eat your cereal, every now and then, with water instead of milk, as it is only then that you get a true sense of the cereal you are eating.) I […]
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June 9, 2015
Story Excerpt#39
So, I don’t drive a car. I ride my motorcycle, or I walk. It is funny because every time that I get on my motorcycle, I am relatively certain that I am going to die; and every time that I walk through the front door of the hospital, I am relatively certain that I am […]
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June 5, 2015
Story Excerpt#38
There is a silhouetted woman in repose on the trim by the wheel well. She has tiny embedded light emitting diodes and is wired into the low-beam setting of the headlight. Whenever the motorcycle is running, with the headlight on low, she glows. As we need all the light in this world that we may […]
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June 1, 2015
Story Excerpt#37
When it rains, the black leather of the gloves stains my hands. It sinks into me. Blown by the wind. When I arrive the gloves are wet and thick. They peel off like an extra layer of skin, a layer of skin grown bloated and loose, from having been submerged too long. The hands emerge […]
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May 25, 2015
Story Excerpt#36
There is magic in carbonation. I love the effervescence of carbonated water – the static crackle of the bubbles and the slight discomfort involved with drinking it quickly – the beginnings of involuntary tears in the corner of the eyes – potential tears that are quickly reabsorbed. I rarely drink un-carbonated water, as I find […]
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May 21, 2015
Story Excerpt#35
Irinotecan was a handsome man and he spent the majority of my therapy sessions (though he was assigned to protect me) over at the nurses’ station – chatting up the single female nurses. I couldn’t blame him. I would have joined him, but I had sworn my allegiance to another long ago. Though she does […]
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