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		<title>Intersections: Chapter 49: Cooking</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 19:45:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cooking is a wonderful thing, thought Larry, as he watched his daughter prepare dinner. You take some stuff that&#8217;s really not very good in its present form, dead and beginning to decay, yanked from the ground dirty with shit, or pulled from a bush and inhabited by worms; you dice it up, cut out the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thenarrativeimperative.com&#038;blog=18641667&#038;post=1655&#038;subd=thenarrativeimperative&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>At the Epiphany Cafe: Theresa</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 03:12:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[She was so thin that she scarcely disturbed the ground when she walked. She was not especially pretty, but had a habit of looking you full in the face, so that it affected your heart. She didn&#8217;t make it beat strong, but pulled it out of your chest a little, so that you felt more [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thenarrativeimperative.com&#038;blog=18641667&#038;post=1652&#038;subd=thenarrativeimperative&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Intersections: Chapter 48: Naomi</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2013 11:07:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S. Harry Zade</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first thing Larry noticed about his daughter was a droopy blouse and a bare right shoulder traversed by a purple bra strap. Flakes of snow landed on her skin and sizzled. Her face lit with what he, in normal circumstances, would&#8217;ve thought was an authentic smile, except he had caught the passing look of [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thenarrativeimperative.com&#038;blog=18641667&#038;post=1650&#038;subd=thenarrativeimperative&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>At the Epiphany Cafe: Love and the Prisoner&#8217;s Dilemma</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2013 14:16:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S. Harry Zade</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My scheme to separate Cowboy Tom from the Lisping Barista backfired. Because this was their last shift together, they redoubled their flirting and Tom gave her his number. I decided this was the perfect time to send him to the back room to count the beans. I opened my laptop at a table between them, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thenarrativeimperative.com&#038;blog=18641667&#038;post=1648&#038;subd=thenarrativeimperative&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Intersections: Chapter 47: The Belly</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Apr 2013 16:10:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As if it was waiting for Larry&#8217;s total humiliation as its cue, a winter wind swooped down from the Dakotas and blew in a hard, stinging snow. A chill reached his bones. If the police were coming, he decided he should change his wet shirt while he still could, before the process was impeded by [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thenarrativeimperative.com&#038;blog=18641667&#038;post=1637&#038;subd=thenarrativeimperative&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>At the Epiphany Cafe: Entropy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 12:32:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S. Harry Zade</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As soon as I gave Cowboy Tom a job at the Epiphany Cafe, I regretted it. Oh, he was fine with the espresso machine, could whip up a frap in seconds, and had a steady hand making all those flower designs on the mochas. The cash in his till always balanced out, the tip jar [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thenarrativeimperative.com&#038;blog=18641667&#038;post=1601&#038;subd=thenarrativeimperative&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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