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My Mother's Living Room
Daniel Harris tries to figure out what the fat lady in the polyester suit is doing.
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Office Photos
Lots of people have jobs where they have to go and work in a big building with desks and computer terminals and things like that. Steven Ahlgren thinks this is great. Really great.
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Lieutenant Mamiya's Long Story
A Japanese soldier goes to the Outer Mongolian desert and gets burned up to the very core of his life. An excerpt from The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami.
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Virtual Paradise
Into a chaotic world, plagued by ominous stress and unpredictablility, comes Virtual Paradise, a soothing antidote to the troubling realities of everyday existence.
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Airport '97: The Strange Nature of JFK
You probably didn't know this, but a lot of really cute, fuzzy animals live at the airport. Oh, and tropical diseases and dogs with cocaine stuffed inside of them, too. By Margaret Mittelbach and Michael Crewdson.
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Signs
Some of them say something; some of them don't. By Warren Neidich.
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Beach Guru
A tale of drugs and deceit. By Alex Garland.
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