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A Patronizing (At Times Degrading) Civil War Embalmer to His Nephew

February 23, 2011

“We get paid to drain the fluids, Nate. Not spill ‘em all over the corpse.” “This here’s embalmin’. If you don’t like it, then don’t let the tent flap hit you where the Good Lord split you.” “Don’t drink the formaldehyde, son.” “Nate! Get off that body.” “I’m gonna pretend I didn’t just see you [...]

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Announcement at The Jacksonville Community Theatre Production of The Bacchae

April 2, 2010

When Pentheus is ripped limb from limb by the Bacchants, there will be blood splatter on the first two rows. Perhaps the third. The theater has provided small umbrellas to shield these rows during this scene, though the we cannot be responsible for splatter reaching the fourth and beyond. Thank you.

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The Milkman

October 12, 2009

To some extent we all feared the milkman. Even my father, who’d fought Franco’s men, would wait until the white truck was down the block before he’d get our bottles off the front step. And our milkman wasn’t mean, not like an old teacher you avoided at the grocery store or a dentist with foul [...]

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