Christian Molenaar

Tag: work

  • The Cowboy Rides Again

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    My very short story “Cowboy” is available in the first issue of Shifties, a new literary magazine by and for the service well. Read more

  • This Staggering May Day

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    In fact, I’m improving.This staggering May Day—Lacking your presenceA solid week—I nonetheless hearYour telephone voiceIn a luxury of trust,A swell of thanksMy memory bearsNo precedent for.Further, I seemNear sane in the mirrorsI’ve passed since dawn. Read more

  • Quitting Time

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    Today I left the job at which I’ve worked for the last two years, one of the more dysfunctional I’ve held besides the barbecue place boasting a back-of-house fight club, though of course I’d be lying if I pretended the last few weeks at the up-to-present job haven’t been pleasant, though of course I’d be… Read more

  • Much Too Young, As They Always Say

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    Nearly all the larger buildings in W. and the surrounding area, the school, the railway station in Haslach and the turbine powerhouse, which supplied the entire district with electricity, had been designed on the drawing board of Ambrose and constructed under his supervision. He had died of a stroke, much too young as they always… Read more

  • Fire Dance

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    Everywhere I go it’s like a ghost town. Read more

  • Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day

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    Ah little recks the laborer, How near his work is holding him to God. The loving Laborer through space and time. Whitman, “Song of the Exposition” Read more

  • Cowboy Ian’s a Major Player

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    The ever-delightful multi-hyphenate Ian Cairncross (musician, writer, videographer and podcaster of Cheap Windows/Emo Survivalist/All My Wishes fame) has recorded an excellent reading of my very short story “Cowboy.” Read more

  • Cowboy

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    The cowboy hat sits high on the crown of his patchy scalp, stilted and unnatural. Read more

Thought:

“The fiction writer is trying to create a false memory with the force of history.”

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