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Night Diving

by Sean Finucane Toner

No wheels, no license, no ability to drive – I'm a little hesitant, a little ashamed.

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The Baby

by Sylvie Beauvais

As I turn 38 and keep stocking drawers full of dreams and half-completed projects, I’m pushing forward with one big initiative: I’m having an imaginary baby. Why not?

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Whore Tie

by Elaine Paliatsas-Haughey

My grandfather’s name was Efthimios Vasilios Patouhas, but I called him Papa. As a toddler I could only manage to spurt out the first syllable of the Greek word for grandfather, pappou. The repeated pa, pa, pa eventually became Papa.

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The Baby

by Sylvie Beauvais

As I turn 38 and keep stocking drawers full of dreams and half-completed projects, I’m pushing forward with one big initiative: I’m having an imaginary baby. Why not?

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Bunker

by Jonathan Kemmerer-Scovner

People were huddled in their offices, whispering. They glanced up with intense faces, returned to private conversation.

This is it, I knew. It’s happening today

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That Breathless Charm

by Eileen Cunniffe

His  periwinkle  shoes  have  a  texture that  suggests  the  skin  of  a  reptile.

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In Memoriam: Denise Gess

by Julia MacDonnell Chang

It is with great sadness that we report that our friend and long-time Philadelphia Stories board member, Denise Gess, passed away on August 22.
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The Origins of Sadness

by James Pabarue

Seven a.m. on a Monday morning and my mother is the only one awake. She pads downstairs. In the kitchen, she raises the shades, letting in weak, gray daylight, then turns to find the coffee pot.

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BJ Schaffer is Dead

by Bernard J. Schaffer

Twenty years ago I was famous. Not so famous that my torrid affairs with young starlets were covered by national magazines, and being thirteen at the time, that wasn’t really much of a problem. I was famous enough that strangers followed me around the Montgomery Mall when I went shopping.

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The Witch and The Clown

by Judilyn Brown

I hate my job. As evening supervisor of a one-hundred bed nursing
home, I oversee the work of one other nurse and ten nurses’ aides.

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