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Subdivision Homesick Blues: a Novel-in-Blogs

Section 2: The Shifting, Chapter 8: The Intoxication of Power

August 10, 2010

As above so below, Every part is also a whole, Every whole is just a part, Without below, above falls apart. In the main offices of Green Pastures, a highly political grassroots organization based out of Madison, WI that lobbied for the use of sub-divisional housing as communal, self-sustaining, creative living centers, sat a stunned [...]

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Section 1, Chapter 7: Pretax-Man Massacre Part II – Or – The Doctors Get a Taste of Their Own Medicine

August 3, 2010

Henry was arrested and placed in the Rolling Hills Mental Health nuthouse in Mankato, Minnesota while he awaited trial, under the care of Dr. Robert Manuel Sweeney Fritzgerald, grandson of the famous opera lover Brian Sweeney Fritzgerald. Also known as “Fitzcarraldo” to the natives of the Amazon, he became famous for dragging a huge, 340-ton [...]

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Section 1, Chapter 6: How Henry Ruined the Irises

July 26, 2010

Contentedly munching on handfuls of oily Border Brand potato chips and slurping down bourbon, Henry James sat watching the “Treasure of the Sierra Madre” thinking very little about anything, when he heard a voice tell him something. At first he just thought he was hearing another TV from the apartment below, and stomped his naked, [...]

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Section 1, Chapter 5: The Renaissance Man

July 19, 2010

The road ahead looked grim for Nick Lantree, his reputation ruined and his dream of an English degree stripped from him by a band of lesbians Hell-bent on ridding the UofM system of men. His self-righteous moral superiority had brought him to this point and the blindness was spreading, fuelled by the burning desire to [...]

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Section 1, Chapter 4: A Lesbian’s Revenge

July 12, 2010

This lie is not about a family of mice living in the hollowed out bottom of a crucifixion statue in front of the First Congregational Church of the Slaughter of Our Lord Jesus Christ, where Mrs. Wooding ended her life.  A family of mice that was killed when Edward Clark Place lost consciousness and ran [...]

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Section 1, Chapter 3: HOT BERGER Born-Again Metal Cross Suicide

July 6, 2010

Samantha, having little choice, left her home and hitched a ride a few miles up the road to Manawa, where she had a friend who was willing to put her up. Later that week Samantha got herself a job at a nearby fast food restaurant, the HOT BERGER, and became quick friends with the manager [...]

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Section 1, Chapter 2: Bodies in A’maze’ment

June 28, 2010

Having no home to sell, nor future income, and a substantial gambling debt spread out amongst several bookies in the Sunshine Terrace, Maple Park, and Pine Ridge tri-subdivisional area, Meredith Orm and her daughter Samantha were forced to make a break for it. Hoping to put the past behind them, they moved away from their [...]

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