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- I am an introverted blue collar pilgrim, surviving near the center of the continent, on the fringes of a shopworn civilization. I abide in rooms full of partially-read tomes, each bookmarked with the fragment of a shattered illusion.
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- And All That Jazz - a poem
- A New Way of Walkin' - essay
- The Graduate - a poem
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- Supposing There's No God... - a poem
- How Are Things in Blagoveshensk? - a story
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- Adam - a poem
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- Pride - a poem
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- Solipsist - a poem
- Someplace Even Worse - a story
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- The Suicide's Satori - a poem
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- The Verb to Know - a poem
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