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Death in San Juan - Author attempts a twist on the death in Venice story but it's not very parallel. Instead a minnesotta doctor, alone in New York gets entangled with a puerto rican family and lives life on a different level until a life threatening event scares him and he retreats back into his normal
— Mar 06, 2013 09:08AM
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A visit from an ex-lover of 20 years ago gets a man wondering, despite their changes, if they might still be a viable couple.
— Mar 23, 2013 06:25PM
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The Bad Penny - a married sister's visit to her gay brother re-surfaces long buried grivenaces and a rivalry. Talk of exhuming granny ...Heavy handed symbolism?
— Mar 21, 2013 09:42AM
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Koan - while exploring Zen a meditative trophy boy discovers that "the opposite of everything" is also true and he actually likes some qualities of his sugar dad
— Mar 17, 2013 11:19AM
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The Judgement of Midas portrait of an opera critic
— Mar 14, 2013 02:46PM
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The servant problem - a New Yorker who tends to buy whatever he needs, companionship, someone to listen to his beefing, etc.
— Mar 07, 2013 04:02PM
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Colors - in an anti-heart of darkness story a black puerto rican recounts his trip into deepest darkest Manhattan and the cruelty he finds there
— Mar 05, 2013 11:20PM
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A widowed grandmother is forcibly reminded of her youth and fling with an authoress in Paris by her profit-seeking historian son.
— Feb 25, 2013 08:59AM
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The Prisoner of Love - A gay man vacationing in Puerto Rico invites an idealistisc but broke activist friend down for a free vacation. After arranging with one of the locals for his guest to have a "good vacation" our host can't disillusion his idealistic guest.
— Feb 24, 2013 05:42PM
