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Orbiting
We are the last chance. The last opportunity to change our past. That sounds ambitious when you look around and everyone is still sucking their thumbs…
Benjamin Allen
Aug 6
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Last Man on the Moon
The snow is coming down erasing the city. My red hat muffling the whole world. A yellow scarf over my mouth. I must look like a stamp on a parcel. Ready…
Benjamin Allen
Jul 24
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Dangling Feet
If this was ancient Rome, this would be a buried volcanic-ash death. Eveline and I. In our own little Pompeii. This could be how we died.
Benjamin Allen
Jul 17
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Number Twenty-Five, Vanilla Milkshake
Early morning, the world is always out of focus. Pumping in caffeine. Sip after sip. In a way, this is renewable energy. That will let you run for…
Benjamin Allen
Jul 10
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Hello, Who’s This?
If we were friends when we were kids, you probably received one of those phone calls. The landline phone rang, you picked up and couldn’t hear a thing…
Benjamin Allen
Feb 20
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Give Me Vitamin C
The delivery guy will drop forty-seven oranges and twenty-five clementines by the front door. He’ll step back a few meters and I’ll drag everything…
Benjamin Allen
Feb 16
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One of Those Persons Who Should Never Die
My mother and her brothers, they all stay in touch with the usual phone call on Christmas making sure no one is dying or checking if anyone got married.
Benjamin Allen
Jan 2
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Pins and Needles
There’s always a sense of relief in hospitals. No matter how miserable you are feeling, two seats away there’s always someone who looks much worse.
Benjamin Allen
Dec 31, 2021
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New Year’s Eve 20-Something
Injuries aside, my life was going as scheduled. Everything was great. Until it was not.
Benjamin Allen
Dec 30, 2021
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The Window, the Slot Machine, My Uncle and the German I Can’t Speak
After all the times I’ve been in Germany, I could never learn a single word except for that one sentence.
Benjamin Allen
Dec 28, 2021
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Maya Woke up Late for the End of the World
When the asteroid hits that island of plastic we tossed in the Atlantic ocean will no longer matter. The recycling we do to save the planet. Green bin…
Benjamin Allen
Dec 26, 2021
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The Biggest Easter Egg Ever
It’ll be Easter soon and there’s no way you’ve ever seen an Easter egg like the one I got when I was a kid. Seriously. This was when I had hairless…
Benjamin Allen
Dec 24, 2021
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