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Bybee | Thursday, April 6,2006
{after 1st article on article listing} Play online poker and win $2,000
Disclosing the secrets of the game — and the most important rule of all
Eleven million people play online poker;
10,999,999 of ’em win, usually $2,000 each. No doubt you know
one of the 10,999,999 — Uncle Bob’s strange friend wh
Bybee | Wednesday, March 1,2006
The most purposeful shot
This game’s over so, why argue with Frankie?
Harry Jacobs watched from his window as the
February snow drifted in his neighbor’s driveway, most of it
under the basketball backboard bolted to the roof over the gara
Bybee | Thursday, February 23,2006
Here and there
The parking lot’s always full, the patients are overweight, and nobody wants trouble
He was not from here; he was from there. New places made him apprehensive, but it seemed
friendly here. The sign outside the building read “Welcome to
the Medical Cente
Bybee | Thursday, February 9,2006
The duck, the shtick, and the best valentine ever
Sister Serene was magic — and my first valentine
The note on Tommie “Snorts”
Sullivan’s Christmas card, saying that Sister Mary Serene had
recently passed to her reward, surprised me only in that she
Bybee | Thursday, February 2,2006
Good poet! Bad poet!
Made irrelevant by the Net, Tullius finds refuge as a poet
Before the Internet, before the search
engines, Tullius Menard was a person of substantial worth, for
he’d memorized most all the facts.
Bybee | Thursday, January 19,2006
Power ("Sorry, Sorry Night") politics
The ‘wedged-in’ generation’s last shot at power
They held no power
They did not know how
Perhaps they’ll hold
Bybee | Thursday, December 29,2005
E-mails from the perimeter of good taste
Will readers never learn not to trade words with me?
I write stories? Stuff? Sometimes kind folks
read the stories and e-mail me. The e-mail is almost always of this
nature: “I enjoyed your story. Interesting. Different.
Bybee | Wednesday, November 23,2005
The longest dream
Over the years I edge up and down and sideways. Lose some. And win some.
Summer 1959. I’ll refine my
first-baseman skills here at the semipro level, forget college, and
go straight to the major leagues.
The old
Bybee | Thursday, November 10,2005
Comb-overs and sensible shoes
Advice for would-be writers
There’s a small celebrity associated
with writing words that find public display; for instance, a few
folks have asked me for writing advice. Of course, what they mean
Bybee | Thursday, October 27,2005
Taking the most clandestine route
No one was above suspicion, and that suspicion had to be inclusive
Secrecy was the first order of the
Brotherhood, so brothers Harold and Herbert called it Not The
Brotherhood. Hob Fadwaddle, the only other “known”
m
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