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Among the seasons

by Jordan Dotson | May 11, 2018 | Beautiful Prose, Things I wish I'd written

Your heart, Bessie, is an autumn garage. …J.D. Salinger, from Franny and Zooey. A waitress gave me this book in 2003. Then she disappeared.

Somebody I could respect…

by Jordan Dotson | Jul 17, 2014 | Beautiful Prose, Things I wish I'd written

She said she knew she was able to fly because when she came down she always had dust on her fingers from touching the light bulbs. …from Franny and Zooey, by that musty old curmudgeon, J.D. Salinger, who proved that one can only say things like the following...

Human, for God’s sake…

by Jordan Dotson | Jun 17, 2014 | Beautiful Prose, Things I wish I'd written

Take most people, they’re crazy about cars. They worry if they get a little scratch on them, and they’re always talking about how many miles they get to a gallon, and if they get a brand-new car already they start thinking about trading it in for one that’s even...

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