Archive for May, 2008

the intruder

The man walked onto the scene like a dislocated member of the living dead. The hitch in his leg and tremor in his shoulder presented two possibilities in my mind: he was either the dazed survivor of a motorcycle nightmare or the willing victim of an all day binge. (Based on previous […]

toothache (part one)

I’ve been planning a holiday in Uganda since time immemorial, and I finally left Sudan on second Friday of this month, but I wasn’t alone (even though being alone was part of my original escape plan).  Mori complained of a toothache throughout the viscous crowd of sensations and circumstances that passed for a Thursday, interrupting […]

a moment of extraordinary beauty

Last month, in the middle of all these stories of death, I put my radio on random and set to work on some bookkeeping.  (The children and pastors call my iPod a radio and I’ve started referring to it in the same way, perhaps out of some flawed desire to make the device sound to […]

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