May 2010
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Fall 2008, red journal.
[My ex-girlfriend] J. called me this morning She asked me about a computer problem she was having because she couldn’t ask H. [her boyfriend] about tech issues. Then she told me about how S.’s lesbian lover is beating her, as if I’d have something to say about it. [S. being a woman J. fell in love with while I was still with J.] I confessed feelings for...
April 2010
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Phone call to my step-dad’s cell phone after two calls to my mom’s cell (and one to her fixed line) went unanswered:
Ed: Yello.
Me: Hey, is my mom there?
Ed: Yeeeeaaaap.
Me: Can you…. tell her to call me?
Ed: Yeeeeaaaap. Is it urgent?
Me: What do you mean?
Ed: Well. She’s eating right now.
Me: Oh, well. I mean, she drunk dialed me last night… and she’s supposed to be sober… so...
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A large number of my head and face movements owe their origin to the annoyance caused me by my seeing the tip of my nose or of my moustache from time to time. The former organ appears to make a sort of screen in front of me, to avoid which I turn or raise my head: I can now see the object I am facing, but at the same time, naturally, I see my nose again at the side, whence one more tilt of the...
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“We’re going to cream these guys. And I’m talking smooth cream,” I said to my teammate Tom, in reference to the Phoenixville Under-8 soccer team we were about to play against. 1987.
“I think I’m kind of like Edgar Allen Poe but a little bit happier,” I said to my parents after reading “The Cask of Amontillado” and “The Raven.”...
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Monkfish Jowls is open for submissions.
Send to: monkfishjowls@gmail.com
Want: Short Memoir, photographs, drawings.
Bylines and links for the authors. All unsigned pieces will be by me.
Payment is $10 per piece on publication.
Payment will likely be made by PayPal or the contributor can have their contribution go to a charity designed to help protect the oceans/Gulf of Mexico.
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I must invent the world anew.
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I’m sitting in the dark pressing the button to send the Amazon Kindle preview sample of Getting Things Done by David Allen to my MacBook. I’m going to wait for that to process and think about purchasing the whole book, even though I’ve already purchased three books this week (Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin [who, I hear, wets his pants in the field], How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer,...