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Author: Matt

  • Orson Welles in Heaven

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    Matt

    This is a short story in progress. I am offering it here for you to comment or to dismiss, whatever the flavor of the day is. Orson Welles is dead, and Steven Spielberg did him in. Always trying to finance another film, Welles is invited by Spielberg to dinner. Spielberg…

  • More Lemmonade: Musing Over death

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    Matt

    I muse over what death, not dying, is like. What an abomination it would be to go on after death. Heaven and hell are twin disasters. I don’t want eternal constructs. So, I assume death is like 4 a.m. last night; I was out, not aware, not knowing, gone, zonked, dreamless.…

  • Mt. Lemmon Continued: Hearing

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    Matt

    Mt. Lemmon still burns on its western slopes, small brush is afire but the papers say that is good and will end soon. It still, to the eye, looks perilous. The sky this morning was a smudge above the mountain. I’ve been running around, doing errands, waiting for the alarm…

  • The Lady in the Coffee Shop

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    Matt

    It has become apparent to me that the philosophical turn of my mind lends itself to short and hopefully pithy little essays. About three years ago I arrived in Oro Valley, Arizona to set up a home. At that time Mt. Lemmon, a kind of woody Greenwich Village on a…