Archive for December 2006

400

Posted to 400 Words News on 10 December 2006, with 6 comments so far.

This just in: 400 Words is featured in the “Periscope” section of this week’s Newsweek, on newsstands tomorrow, or online here. Terribly exciting. Big ups to Nick Summers for writing the piece, and welcome to all the Newsweek readers who are, I hope, finding their way here for the first time. Make yourselves at home, [...]

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Posted to Compulsions on 5 December 2006, with 2 comments so far.

by Sara — Age 86 — Cornwall, CT My mother-in-law, a short, wiry bundle of energy with prematurely gray hair, was obsessed with cleanliness. When I sponge-wiped the kitchen table Sadie donned rubber gloves and followed after me, spraying the table with Fantastick and wiping it again with a cloth. I have to admit that [...]

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Posted to Compulsions on 1 December 2006, with no comments so far.

by Kyle — Age 27 — Brooklyn, NY The face of the pubescent boy changes fast. Previously oblivious that I materially existed, I was alerted in Jr. High by my peers that I was in possession of a large nose. A huge fuckin’ schnoz? A beak? Wasn’t there before. A kid, I was 12, a [...]