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A poem for the end of the world

November 26, 2019by SFine 2 Comments

We burned the koalas out of existence; they screamed loudly as they died, but that wasn’t enough to make us stop. The whales we choked with plastic were more silent, […]

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Bird's Eye View, but still uncomfortable, Poetry, The Daily Write

Obituary

October 18, 2019by SFine Leave a comment

I read your obituary and it was awful, basically just a long list of names, some of people that you hardly ever saw, much less knew you liked strawberry ice […]

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Bird's Eye View, but still uncomfortable, flash, not horror, but still uncomfortable, Short Fiction, The Daily Write

Bluegrass and the Random Wonderful

October 8, 2019by SFine Leave a comment

I tend to avoid crowds successfully enough that I forget how being in one can so easily restore my optimism. One of the best things about San Francisco is Hardly […]

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Bird's Eye View, but still uncomfortable, growing up midwestern, love, not horror, reflections

Birthday Apocalyptica

September 21, 2019by SFine 3 Comments

I saw it was your birthday so I bought this card and felt the need to write a note in it – something beyond Happy birthday. Like, how I saw on the news that the hills are on fire again and five more species have been declared extinct and another glacier melted.

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Bird's Eye View, but still uncomfortable, climate, not horror, not horror, but still uncomfortable, reflections

This is why we impeach

June 30, 2019by SFine Leave a comment

Last year at the Oslo Freedom Forum, a man named Fred Warmbier took the stage. It was a bit strange to see a middle aged white American male on that […]

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Bird's Eye View, but still uncomfortable, Essays, The Daily Write

Harry Potter and The Run for Congress

May 1, 2019by SFine Leave a comment

Originally posted on The Stepmom Chronicles:
We are talking on the phone when you remind me, today is National Book Day. Until that point, our conversation was like every other…

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Bird's Eye View

Imagine.

April 21, 2019by SFine Leave a comment

Many political candidates are asking us to imagine a very different future than the species has ever confronted. From Andrew Yang’s pitch for UBI in a world where the biggest […]

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Bird's Eye View, but still uncomfortable

One Funeral At a Time

April 7, 2019by SFine 2 Comments

Humans are diminishing the Earth’s resources far faster than nature or technology can possibly replace them. We can stop, anytime. But it seems we won’t, not without a revolution. I […]

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Bird's Eye View, but still uncomfortable, Essays, not horror

Are We Arsonists or Firefighters?

January 28, 2019by SFine 2 Comments

“Not a dollar more than legally required.” This was the answer that Mitt Romney gave to a journalist’s question about how much he paid in taxes. He said it with […]

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Bird's Eye View

Song of the crickets

August 12, 2018by SFine 2 Comments

There’s a girl I knew, in the strange way of the Internet.  Named for a flower, she is the daughter of a man I met on a defunct writing site…a […]

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Bird's Eye View, but still uncomfortable, Essays, love, not horror, reflections

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