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Lost or Found, Relative or Fake: My brush with Indigence, by @JackAUrquhart

Posted on April 28, 2013 by

©2013  980 words There has never been a time when I didn’t worry about money. I write that sentence understanding full well that I know nothing of abject poverty.  Indeed, pecuniary anxieties, when they’ve come my way, have been the … Continue reading →

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A Letter to 5 Cowardly U.S. Senators, by @JackAUrquhart

Posted on April 18, 2013 by

April 18, 2013 Honorable Max Baucus (D-Montana) Honorable Mark Begich (D-Alaska) Honorable Heidi Heitkamp (D-North Dakota) Honorable Mark Pryor (D-Arkansas) Honorable Marco Rubio (R-Florida) United States Senate, Washington, DC Senators, I am writing to express my disappointment, indeed, my sorrow, … Continue reading →

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Out-of-Order Moments: A Shortlist, From my Youth, by @jackaurquhart

Posted on April 14, 2013 by

(Inspired by WordPress Daily Prompt, 4.14.2013: The Satisfaction of a List) ©2013  1100 words 1.  Apopka, Florida 1950-something:  I never know how to begin, so I just blurt it out—say that I want to plant flowers.  My aunt smirks at … Continue reading →

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Short Fiction: Mister Courtman Heads Home, by @jackaurquhart

Posted on April 11, 2013 by

© 2011/2012/2013   Revised per WordPress Daily Prompt, 975 words He runs in circles, a miles-long loop through town, up into the foothills, back to where he started.  As always, he takes the last two hundred meters at an arse-kicking … Continue reading →

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The Keeper of the Flame, by @JackAUrquhart

Posted on April 4, 2013 by

©2013    1350 words This is a decades-old photo of my paternal grandmother.  She was in her early nineties and still living in her Central Florida home.  That’s my daughter Devon she’s holding; I think Dev was about 18 months old … Continue reading →

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My Florida … ambivalence (in words and pictures) by @JackAUrquhart

Posted on March 15, 2013 by

© 2013   (670 words) It’s three years this month (March) since my partner Raymond and I moved to Florida from our former home in the San Francisco Bay Area.  It wasn’t a move either of us sought, but, rather, one … Continue reading →

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Book Review, George Saunders’ TENTH OF DECEMBER: In search of the deepest, dearest thing

Posted on February 20, 2013 by

By Jack A. Urquhart, ©2013  (1800 words) “We left home, married, had children of our own, found the seeds of meanness blooming also within us.” The foregoing line from “Sticks,” one of the dark (and darkly funny) morality tales in … Continue reading →

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My Forty-eight, by @JackAUrquhart

Posted on February 6, 2013 by

©2013 by Jack A. Urquhart (1354 words) Lately I have followed with interest, and no small regard, the various “When I was…” posts (also known as “My [insert number]” posts) that have been showing up on social media sites.  For those … Continue reading →

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Ready, Aim, Fire! Gun Facts Pop Quiz, by @JackAUrquhart

Posted on January 31, 2013 by

1. The total number of nonmilitary firearms in the United States as of 2009 was: a. 100 million b. 150 million c. 310 million d. 500 million 2. True/False: The U.S. ranks number 1 in the world in per capita … Continue reading →

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Picayune Pop Quiz for Literature Lovers, by @JackAUrquhart

Posted on January 10, 2013 by

This author was the first Arabic-language writer to win the Nobel Prize for literature. Gibran Khalil Gibran Ahlam (or Ahlem) Mosteghanemi Tawfiq al-Hakim Naguib Mahfouz This American writer became U.S. Consul to Liverpool because of his connection to President Franklin … Continue reading →

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