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Oct.21.2011
From the first day that she and her husband moved into their Prague flat overlooking the botanical gardens and the Vyšehrad Chapel, she was drawn to the abandoned building across the way, with its back side facing their picture windows. First, it began as a mild interest. She would smoke her...
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Sep.16.2011
One week after being released from Prague’s underground detention facility and Zuzu still cannot stop sneezing. Everywhere she goes, sneeze sneeze sneeze. No matter how many times she blows her nose, how much nasal spray she uses, sinus cleanses with salt water, nothing will stop the violent...
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May.20.2010
My introduction to the creature known as Lady Gaga was through a sixth grader named Greyson Chance whose YouTube cover of her song Paparazzi stormed from the Internet and into the great wide world. If I'd heard a Lady Gaga song before last week, I couldn't say, and in fact I was one of the...
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Apr.15.2010
This is the copy of Maurice Sendak's Where The Wild Things Are I've had since I was 4 years old. It has gone all over the world with me, a fact that Max would surely love. Like The Wizard of Oz and Alice in Wonderland, Where The Wild Things Are is one of the fundamental tenets of my...
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Feb.11.2010
(NOTE: This poem is made up of song lyrics. There is an annotated version for the curiouser of the curious.)
Born free, as free as the wind blows. I woke up this morning with my mind set on freedom. Good morning, freedom, I'd like to take you by the hand. Freer than the meaning of free that man...
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Feb.04.2010
Zuzu is on Prague's number 18 tram when the zombie sneezes on her.
Though he is a young fellow, Zuzu had done the polite thing by offering him her seat, however it is less out of kindness and more out of the desire to get as far away from his stench as possible. Zuzu even considers getting off the...
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Sep.17.2009
Here in Europe we have this amazing cream called Bepanthen that is phenomenal for healing wounds without any resulting scarring. Doesn't matter how you got the wound, scrape, burn, but if you use Bepanthen on it you absolutely will not scar. I got to thinking that maybe forgiveness is like that...
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About Sezin
Author of the recently re-released American Monsters, Sezin is a professional global nomad who has literally lived all over the world since birth. Born in Colombo, Sri Lanka to a Lithuanian-American mother and Singhalese-Tamil father, Sezin then went on to...
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