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lovick
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Santa Monica
October 18, 2017
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lovick
ganges
5y
My Dip in the Ganges
I twisted through Varanasi’s suffocating maze, side-stepping skinny cows and men on motorcycles, their mouths blood-red from the local chew. Silhouettes in shop windows. Music blasting from phones. The
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vancouver
5y
Skeleton Key
Towards the end of elementary, an older boy gave me the master key to the school. Weeks later, he would take the key back, but, for a little bit, just before summer began, I had the master key to Queen
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lovick
grandfather
5y
A Decorous Man
Mom’s dad Wells came by one night. I watched him through the kitchen window, parking his car. Always a new sedan of some kind, never German. “Too ostentatious,” he’d say. “Pop,” as the grandkids called
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sex
5y
The First Winery
I should’ve known I’d meet you. The limitless vineyard. The turtle-shaped cloud. Everything had a strange significance or the cabernet was playing tricks. You came in bubbly, balletic, hair flowing from
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sex
5y
My First Sexual Experience
Grade six. I had a girlfriend. But it was following the same tragic pattern: an initial flirtation followed by a brokering of the relationship between her friend and I, after which I’d become paralyzed
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flashfiction
5y
Morning Crack-up
What set me off was that little mango-pyramid. It was lying there on the kitchen floor. A polyhedron of terror. ⠀ The morning had started out great. I got up early, meditated, showered. I put steel cut
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flashfiction
5y
Hey What Happened to Lovick's Monty Clift film?
He hit the gas coming out of the s-curve winding around the canyon, his diesel engine rattling, the sky an overcast of glare and gray trees throwing jagged shadows on the narrow road. ⠀ He would do these
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lovicksloops
5y
Nuclear Alien UFO from Korea
I drank honey vodka from a coffee cup and waited for you to emerge. It had been a long day. So literal. So many talking-heads. At one point I’d muttered to myself, “You’re an asshole, Lovick, that’s your
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flashfiction
5y
That Turd on the Ferry
I didn’t think I could get any lonelier after that summer, but when high school started this kid John had it out for me pretty much immediately. He was small but had big friends. He came at me in PE punching
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prose
5y
My Relinquishment of James Van Der Beek
Why am I thinking of Van Der Beek? I imagine it’s because I’m at that Coffee Bean on Hillhurst where I wrote that thriller I got him to read. I wrote a lot of it here — its epic patio walled-in with trees
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prose
5y
Blue Is The Orangest Color
I drove into Vancouver from LA in time to have a late dinner with mom on the West Side before knocking out on her couch. I awoke at 3am looking out the window at the maple trees, the ocean, the mountains,
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travelwriting
5y
That Psycho in Minsk
Some psycho was staring at me from across the gate at the Minsk airport. He’d been staring at me for a long time. On multiple occasions I had tried to hold this asshole’s gaze and each time I had looked
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fiction
5y
A Humbling in Ninh Binh
I was feeling good about my ability to riff with the locals. Servers, tailors, Grab drivers — so many solid interactions. I don’t travel a lot, but I’m nimble when I do. When confronted with hostility,
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bubble
7y
Show Me How To Short These Three Bubbles
Lately I’ve been feeling like a lemming. I’ve grown a man bun well passed the tipping point. I bought a diesel Mercedes long after its anointment as the hipster whip du jour. I moved to Santa Monica at
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