Ron. Lavalette's Blog – September 2010 Archive (6)

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Six Sentences

The first sentence was boring.

The second sentence, although considerably longer, was not much more interesting.

When he considered adding a third sentence, one that would grab the…

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Added by Ron. Lavalette on September 30, 2010 at 8:30pm — 9 Comments

This Just In

He goes on and on, reading snippets of the newspaper aloud to anyone within earshot in the coffee shop, heedless of whether or not they show any interest, focusing on stories from Afghanistan and adding occasional editorial comments like, “Well, this might be good news,” or “Here’s something really interesting.”…

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Added by Ron. Lavalette on September 29, 2010 at 8:01pm — 8 Comments

You Can't Go Home (Homecoming II)

He comes home, but discovers almost immediately that there are aspects of Hell one can never fully leave behind. He discovers this early on his first morning when the dumpster truck’s air brakes fail and the vehicle overshoots its mark, slams the dumpster into the alley’s dead end. Even three flights up, the crash is deafening, explosive; catapults him out…

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Added by Ron. Lavalette on September 28, 2010 at 1:00pm — 10 Comments

Soon Enough, Probably

It was pretty clear when he informed the Agency Director of his unwillingness to canvass for signatures in support of the appropriations requests (on the basis that resources acquisition is not strictly a function service coordination) that if he hadn’t lost his job altogether he’d at least shot himself badly in the foot.



The way things stood, he was almost hoping for summary termination.



This was unlikely, however,… Continue

Added by Ron. Lavalette on September 25, 2010 at 12:00pm — 1 Comment

Henry's Famous Promise

He drives past Henry’s Famous Pizza with his old friend beside him in a red Ford pickup, thinks about all the vehicles they’ve ridden in together past Henry’s, or driven there together on Friday nights, hoping to meet their dreamgirls. Once in a while they actually met dreamgirls, but they almost always turned out to be somebody else’s dreamgirls just killing time until the right dreamer came along.



Other than a new brick façade, Henry’s hadn’t changed…

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Added by Ron. Lavalette on September 24, 2010 at 10:37pm — 5 Comments

Homecoming

Early in the morning on the fifth of five days in a row, a narrow play of moonlight, slotted through a blind, slashed the woman’s torso from just above the navel to just below her right eye. The gentle swell and roll of that sweet terrain in those last few hours before the gray dragged in the…
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Added by Ron. Lavalette on September 24, 2010 at 6:30pm — 3 Comments

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