List of Words My Editor Insisted On Cutting From My Recently Published Creative Non-Fiction Piece, "The Loving Syndrome" (No Relation to the Novel-in-Progress of the Same Name)

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A letter from a long-lost friend:

Max:

Congratulations on the publication of your short essay, "The Loving Syndrome," in this month's issue of THE BLUE AND WHITE [a literary magazine of some repute at Columbia University in the City of New York--MO]. Although at first the title of the piece confused me, I soon managed to piece together what had ( Read more... )

Cheers, gang. It's me, Max Overly, your old confidante, second in all of your gentlemen's disputes, and handy with a hacksaw when a limb needs to come off after an engagement at sea! (Although frankly if your engagement requires amputation, we here at Overly Management and Counseling strongly recommend a pre-nup before the actual marriage, har, ( Read more... )

A telephone call: "Max, I've got three tickets to [name omitted]'s reading tonight. Would you like to go heckle him ( Read more... )

Recently I've been getting a lot of e-mails and other communiqués from readers of this journal who ask me, "Max, how did you lose your virginity?" I would like there to be a simple answer to this question, because it seems like a simple question, and I think that anyone who goes to the trouble of keeping up with this record of my Tormented ( Read more... )

Stine ( Read more... )

Annabel just woke up, momentarily, and conducted a brief conversation in grunts with me ( Read more... )

A few brief thoughts as Annabel lies sleeping in the bed just next to my desk, her pulse from this angle strangely visible and rapid in her neck ( Read more... )

This weekend, honeysuckle started blooming right outside the window where I do much of my work. It was pleasant, but I informed my landlord that I am a Jewish, Northern novelist, that I am merely transplanted to this large Southeastern city temporarily, and that having honeysuckle blooming outside my window was idiomatically inappropriate in every ( Read more... )

( A Typical Chapter -- 27? 28? -- the last sentence of which is an oblique, semi-Biblical allusion which I positively dare my gentle readers to identify. )