Month: April 2024

Frivolity #2

Posted by Paul Talbot | Apr 30, 2024 | Notebooks |

Nobody wanted the party to stop and it didn’t.  It couldn’t.  Astonishing forces fed the...

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Frivolity #1

Posted by Paul Talbot | Apr 29, 2024 | Notebooks |

Got the shu mai, got the eye in the sky and the pumpkin pie.  That’s what he sang, walking with...

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Outside Copeland, Idaho

Posted by Paul Talbot | Apr 13, 2024 | Idaho |

Outside Copeland, Idaho, he walked into a funeral parlor where the air was so dead a dry sadness...

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Where The Night Scorches The Day

Posted by Paul Talbot | Apr 12, 2024 | Nevada |

Where the night scorches the day and burns it away, the big signs blaze.  Huge videos sputter and...

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Too Fast

Posted by Paul Talbot | Apr 11, 2024 | California |

Too fast for others on the freeway to approach, let alone pass, she soared as long as possible...

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When She Awoke

Posted by Paul Talbot | Apr 10, 2024 | California |

When she awoke, gauzy and warm, she tried not to disengage from her dreams. It would hurt to leave...

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Only The Grifters Knew

Posted by Paul Talbot | Apr 9, 2024 | Chronicles |

First came the Mormons, then the railroad and then the grifters. Because they saw what others...

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Trouble On The Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta

Posted by Paul Talbot | Apr 8, 2024 | California |

There’s trouble on the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.  Thousands of steelhead trout are...

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Ivanpah Lake

Posted by Paul Talbot | Apr 2, 2024 | Nevada |

Ivanpah Lake sparkled like the basepaths of a freshly tended infield.  Their BMW X5  floated...

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The Late Checkout

Posted by Paul Talbot | Apr 1, 2024 | Chronicles |

The late checkout was bestowed only after prolonged debate, granted by a disdainful desk clerk who...

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