A little bit of everything
Les Cohen is a long-term Marylander, having grown up in Annapolis. Professionally, he writes and edits materials for business and political clients from his base of operations in Columbia, Maryland. He has a Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Economics. Leave a comment or feel free to send him an email to Les@Writeaway.us.
This fiftieth installment is called “Schmutz Patrol.” It’s a short-short story about a very special cleaning service that does a whole lot more than mop and dust for its clients.
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The retail tourist facility, as a reflection of the city overall, has fallen on hard times, despite its proximity to the Horseshoe Casino, Topgolf, and other entertainment zone attractions nearby. The redo will involve new retail, commercial, residential, and outdoor development. Total cost, $500 million in private money, plus $400 million in public funding for infrastructure.
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This forty-ninth installment is called “The Badger.” It’s a short-short story about a man and woman trapped in an unhappy marriage – until the husband is pursued by someone disguised as a beaver.
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To be clear, I’m not making fun of religion. Not religion in general or Mike Johnson’s religion in particular. Quite to the contrary. I respect people’s heartfelt religious beliefs and take the subject of God very seriously.
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This forty-eighth installment is called “Pretense.” It’s a short-short story about a woman and a man who met and fell in love thinking they were different people than they really were.
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Republicans don’t believe in majority rule. Recent votes in the House Republican Conference are proof positive of this heresy, this lack of commitment to a fundamental principle of our democracy.
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This forty-sixth installment is called “Hello?” It’s a short-short story about roommates, one of them who dates a lot, the other not so much, and how the less obvious of the two becomes interested in a young man who calls for her friend.
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If Hamas is trying to upset us, to piss us off, it’s working. Vicious cruelty can be a tool of war as much as any other kind of weapon. Hamas wants us to overreact, to lose our righteous high ground, and to become the vicious enemy they need to hate. A superpower they can blame.
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This forty-sixth installment is called “The Dishes Fairy.” It’s a short-short story about a writer of science fiction fantasy who’s passed away, the wife who survives him and the life they had together.
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Seriously, folks, a successful Republican candidate at the top of the ticket could result in Republicans controlling both the House, the Senate, and the White House. And that would be awful.
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