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ONE. On a Plain
TWO. city City CITY
THREE. Secret History
FOUR. Down in the Hole
FIVE. The Ninth Circle
SIX. Interiors
SEVEN. Barstool Blues
EIGHT. Ulysses in Nighttown
NINE. Labyrinth
David L. Ulin is the author of The Lost Art of Reading: Why Books Matter in a Distracted Time and The Myth of Solid (Ground: Earthquakes, Prediction, and the Fault Line Between Reason and Faith. He is also the editor of three anthologies: Cape Cod Noir, Another City: Writing from Los Angeles, and Writing Los Angeles: A Literary Anthology, which won a 2002 California book award. Ulin is book critic of the Los Angeles Times.
Brian Bouldrey
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It was a lesson he was trying to learn also: to find a way to get clear of all the noise. Maybe, if you could fully inhabit one moment, all that other stuff would fade, leaving only the paleness of the sunlight and the image of a mother and a son, in the instant before time betrayed them, playing together in the yard.
The plane touched down with a series of skidding bumps. The brakes kicked in and he was pushed forward in his seat. Outside forces, all these outside forces. The older he got, the more he felt…buffeted the word was, as if he himself were caught in turbulence, tossed from side to side. He didn't know why Sylvie had come into his mind. He was not dying (except, of course, in the way that we are all dying), and it had been years since he had pushed a child on a swing. Yet he could feel the betrayal, that time was not his friend any longer. (Another illusion: that it had ever been.)
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