Monthly Archives: January 2024

The Green Flash

Posted on January 30, 2024 by 34orion

I awake to the sound of distant drums and muffled cheering. I suspect that somewhere on the Ritz’s property a group of native Hawaiians are giving some mainlanders a highly sanitized introduction to their culture. Perhaps a hula demonstration or Luau. I have no desire to get up and join them. It is too corny and I am too tired for any socializing tonight. But I am still wrestling with what brought us here in the first place. Not only the death of Conor but the circumstances that led up to it, how I had missed so much and the role I had played when everything went tits up.   Continue reading →

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The Green Flash:

Posted on January 28, 2024 by 34orion

Day 1: 8pm . Chapter 1: Well the first days are the hardest days, don’t you worry any more‘Cause when life looks like easy street, there is danger at your doorThink this through with me, let me know your mindWoah-oh, … Continue reading →

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The Green Flash: Chapter 1

Posted on January 25, 2024 by 34orion

Day 1: 3pm (Continued) It is my nephew, Liam. 6’4”, and despite his twenty-eight years a boyish face with rosy cheeks, dimples, and a beard that only needed to be shaved twice a week. Covid protocols be damned we gave … Continue reading →

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The Green Flash: Chapter 1

Posted on January 23, 2024 by 34orion

Day 1: 3pm Hawaii smells as heaven should. It felt that way because for the last fifteen hours I had been on an airplane wearing a KN95 mask and after smelling my own breath for that long anything would smell … Continue reading →

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Carol Z. Rothkopf: An Incomplete Memoir

Posted on January 13, 2024 by 34orion

The Book of Baum: Lazar Baum was the eldest, and apparently went West, probably during the Gold Rush of 1848. He was never heard of again. The Family Book of 1964 suggests that he could have been scalped by Indians, … Continue reading →

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