Mark Phillips' Pages: Workbook: October 2019

Workbook: October, 2019

October 31, 2019: now I swear by the sun god Utu on this very day
October 30, 2019: Early in my career I met for lunch with a VP about a possible next job.
October 29, 2019: That would be my do-over. Back to that fork, where the wrong road was taken.
October 28, 2019: Waltz between worlds, the old and the new, through portals to pasts made present.
October 27, 2019: We kept a city street map tacked to my bedroom wall.
October 26, 2019: We had our usuals.
October 25, 2019: "No!", she said, the cult leader wannabe.
October 24, 2019: She had him arrested. A night in jail, the deadbeat dad.
October 23, 2019: When I encounter someone describing their sadness as "depression" I frequently scratch my head in puzzlement.
October 22, 2019: There's confusion.
October 21, 2019: His smile is false.
October 20, 2019: It truly is kind of her not to stuff her boyfriend up my nose.
October 19, 2019: Speed and angels.
October 18, 2019: Old Man of the Mountain, except, not that one...
October 17, 2019: I like her but she's loud, and I need to be invisible in public.
October 16, 2019: The People attack unarmed and are shot down.
October 15, 2019: Shining Blonde on the Hill, the girl who loved to wrestle and lose.
October 14, 2019: I was told by third parties it was the best undergraduate fiction he'd ever read.
October 13, 2019: Does she know I love her?
October 12, 2019: Fast company.
October 11, 2019: I'm aware these geographical dreams are dreams.
October 10, 2019: Brownstones, four or five stories...
October 9, 2019: One irony being: it was in reality not safe at all.
October 8, 2019: It was disquieting when we moved.
October 7, 2019: The corridor curves rightward between patio seating...
October 6, 2019: I sometimes fantasize of renting the apartment where we lived.
October 5, 2019: A year later she told me the invasion had been a mistake.
October 4, 2019: The University is buildings around a crowded concrete square.
October 3, 2019: Brilliant, charming, more "cute" than beautiful...
October 2, 2019: Those were the wrong people.
October 1, 2019: Brothers at The Presidio.