http://shortstorieslongodds.com Words, User-Defined Mon, 18 Jan 2010 06:44:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Come, let us renew ourselves here, with each other. Normally we sit on shelves and deny that we are brothers because there's no money in it. The best way to know who you are these days, the key is to look to others, so that you can learn a little about you. If I am a stranger still after all ... http://shortstorieslongodds.com/2010/01/14/if-i-am-a-stranger/ I was lucky this year to see my brother at Christmas. He's been in Oregon for years now with his lovely wife Sarah and snow dog Clancy. As we've gotten older I have come to think we look less and less alike. I have never felt that we shared much of a physical resemblance: My legs are short ... http://shortstorieslongodds.com/2010/01/12/holiday-vignettes-3-iv-brothers/ We all had Christmas on Twitter this year - now, at the holidays, instead of not thinking of you (and, as a result, relegating you to non-holiday status, forcing you to exist only in the ether of memory between when I can see you and when I cannot) instead now I know how you feel about your mom and fight with ... http://shortstorieslongodds.com/2010/01/04/holiday-vignettes-3-iii-twitter/ In my father's house: there is no escape from The Fart Game http://shortstorieslongodds.com/2009/12/22/holiday-vignettes-3-ii/ Sound is a hammer and memories are stone, and this city is an anvil where the writer sits, and days pass as glammer while revisions are honed; We all pay the bill but who receives the benefit? (to whom we cede the benefit) http://shortstorieslongodds.com/2009/12/07/holiday-vignettes-3-i/