Tag: Praxis et Theorica Mortis
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Clean
Monday, 5 June, 2017 – Ann Arbor, Michigan Kate walks a little faster as she leaves Main Street and turns at last toward the Burlington Office Center. Up ahead, the brick building’s three levels glow in the morning sunlight, only partly obscured by the early leaves of parking lot trees. The parking area is practically…
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Cortez, Upon Reaching the New World
Monday, 5 June, 2017 – Ann Arbor, Michigan Cortez, upon reaching the new world, decided What the hell. I think I will walk to work today. Because, after all, just yesterday—Or was it the day before? The days have kind of blurred together recently.—the great explorer thought that she was dying of brain cancer. Even…
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KATE Scan
Saturday, 3 June to Monday, 5 June, 2017 – Ann Arbor, Michigan Standing in front of the Pogany’s door, Kate whispers to herself. “I can do this,” she says. “Just like the building, except smaller. Like a CAT scan.” She approximates a reassuring smile, which quickly fades. “And if it doesn’t work, she doesn’t even…
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Ask them to leave
Friday, 2 June, 2017 – Ann Arbor, Michigan She knows right away that the dream is different, because she is seeing her mother from a different point of view. As her mother walks in through the door of Aunt Janice’s house Kate sees her, for the first time ever, from the point of view of…
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Thanks for the Donuts
Thursday, 23 March, 2017 – Ann Arbor, Michigan Jon starts to lean on the edge of her desk, then thinks better of it and straightens up again. He appears to be almost but not quite ready to ask a question. “What else can I do for you, Jon?” Kate prompts. “Should I bring more donuts…
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Kate Visits the Lab
Thursday, 23 March, 2017 – Ann Arbor, Michigan Everybody has arrived and gotten pretty well settled into their various projects, with the possible exception of Brian who seems to be splitting is time between working and surreptitiously surfing, when a soft little knock comes at the door jamb. Ulrich, who has been muttering to himself…
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Cooking
Saturday, 18 March, 2017 – Ann Arbor, Michigan It’s actually a little scary opening the door and walking back into her apartment. After all, the last time she was here she hallucinated a soul-devouring worm sticking out of the back of her head. But Kate goes in and nothing weird happens, except that when she…
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The Duck Egg Man
Saturday, 18 March, 2017 – Ann Arbor, Michigan The Huron River flows away and away, its water turned to liquid silver by the heavy gray sky, and when it finally gets where it’s going it will forget what it is, emptying itself into the great wild ocean, losing itself. Kate stands at the railing of…
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A Stillness like the Heart of a Rose
Saturday, 18 March, 2017 – Ann Arbor, Michigan On Saturday morning, Kate rises later than normal and groans when she sees that the time is already past 7:00. The consequence, no doubt, of her wild gin-fueled debauchery of the evening, and the bizarre experience at the end of it. If she wants to get anything…
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A Night Out with the Boys
Friday, 17 March, 2017 – Ann Arbor, Michigan Kate hasn’t had money to go out, nor any people to go out with, in what seems like forever. But now she’s had a couple paychecks—and they are much nicer paychecks than what she was used to the last couple years—and she can actually afford to have…
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Praxis et Theorica Mortis
Friday, 17 March, 2017 – Ann Arbor, Michigan On Friday morning, Kate is surprised to find herself waking up before the alarm. This minor miracle happens only very occasionally, but the rare days on which it does occur are guaranteed to be special. In fact, Kate feels so well-rested that it almost feels as though…
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Seeing Jon
Thursday, 16 March, 2017 – Ann Arbor, Michigan Unlike in her previous job, Kate now has a real office. Well, it’s actually more of a room, big enough to have meetings in except that it has a nice desk facing out into the middle of the room, and a large conference table, pushed against the…
The Wolverine Truck Stop and Motor Lodge 