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Tag: fiction

Sanity Check

By super trooper
from the Bleeding Hearts department, Section Diaries
Posted on Thu Sep 28, 2006 at 10:56:21 AM EST
Tags: fiction (all tags)

John Scalzi has an essay, a year old at this point, about being poor. Powerful:

Being poor is believing a GED actually makes a goddamned difference.

Being poor is people angry at you just for walking around in the mall.

Being poor is not taking the job because you can't find someone you trust to watch your kids.

Being poor is the police busting into the apartment right next to yours.

Being poor is not talking to that girl because she'll probably just laugh at your clothes.

Being poor is hoping you'll be invited for dinner.

Being poor is a sidewalk with lots of brown glass on it.

Being poor is people thinking they know something about you by the way you talk.

Being poor is needing that 35-cent raise.

Being poor is your kid's teacher assuming you don't have any books in your home.

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Tom H. Macker's Dirty World War I Letters

By super trooper, Section Events
Posted on Tue Sep 19, 2006 at 10:44:23 PM EST
Tags: fiction (all tags)

"But Melissa, riddle me this: does he touch you where it hurts? See, my friend, Johnson, has told me of a spot that sometimes hurts a young lady but when manipulated correctly provides a flourish of excitement."

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