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Old Capital
Ira Landon brought Machiko home from his tour in Japan. She’d been Machiko Wasaka when he’d met her in Kyoto. Performing at a club, a place that sold watered down champagne and hungry women for American dollars. The owner was a short Japanese in a Western-style suit who had picked up enough English to…
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Tar Paper
Marcus was in a sleeveless white shirt and his biceps were like pale hams. Was fat and self-satisfied on the courthouse steps with his legs stretched out in the direction of Kyle and Jody. Kyle and Jody were shirtless and stripped to their briefs in the morning sun and wrestling on the courthouse square like…
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Borges at a Movie Palace
Borges heard the overture before the picture, old fashioned, archaic like the labyrinthine Art Deco theater where Valentino once and always played a bullfighter. Borges was in America, in Texas where the South becomes the Southwest and the decay of the ante bellum gave way to the strutting cowboys of a young and vigorous nation.…
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Rough Hump
The studio paid for the chip in his head. Full immersion, that was where the market was going. Had gotten him into man-on-man because there was more money in that too. The factory default was safe for all ages and that was why he kept hearing that this session was going to be a “rough…
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Waiting on Redemption
David snapped his fingers and used the spark to light the cigarette. Waved away the little fire that was like a will-o’-the-wisp and took a drag. “You oughtn’t to do that,” Morris said. “When did you start being bothered by smoking? Not as though a sense of smell helps us out any.” “I don’t care…
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All Concepts Dissolve Under Examination
“Georgia Buddha,” my first collection of short stories, is now available from Passage Press. https://passage.press/products/georgia-buddha Substack: vnebertwrites.substack.com “Georgia Buddha” – Received the Passage Prize First Place for Fiction. Now the title story of my collection from Passage Press, available at: https://passage.press/products/georgia-buddha “Sky Burial” – It’s shorter than Georgia Buddha, touches on similar themes: https://vnebert.com/2022/03/19/sky-burial/ “Tar…
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Sky Burial
Ran his fingers through his hair he had just shaved real close. Fingers pricked over stubble and the boy felt like a monk. His left hand remained on the wheel, held low, below the level of the dash. Repeated running his hand over what was left of his light-blonde hair and then placed his right…
V.N. Ebert 