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Esmo’s phone manner was so hugger-mugger that I could be sitting four feet away and could not make out a single word. For all I could tell, he might have been laying fifty on a pony.
In the Reader’s scuffling days, Steve Esmedina was the staff’s Doc Holliday — erudite, enigmatic, and bedeviled by self-consumptive tendencies that seemed rooted in debilitating, unspoken discomfiture. For as long as I knew him, he …
1:00 a.m. The dyslexic hour. Words on computer monitor start to run together. Squinting. Brain tired. Slumping. Sleep summons. The house has been quiet for hours. My favorite time of day, my “afternoon.” Quiet time. …
Skeletons are horrors; they dink and tinkle and rattle in old castles, hung from oaken beams, making long, indolently rustling pendulums on the wind.... —Ray Bradbury, Skeleton THE PROTAGONIST IN Bradbury’s short story, a Mr. …
THE MAN checked his package one last time. In the battered shoe-box. all things seemed in order. There were four slices cf white bread on the bottom of the box. topped by a layer of …
CIVIC THEATRE The Civic Theatre is San Diego’s “official” concert hall, being part of the city's community concourse complex, and boasting the plushest setting for entertainment in the county. As a showcase for productions including …