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Gender | [this space intentionally left blank]
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This space intentionally left blank]. Fictions and other writing by Dallas Taylor. RSS feed for this section. This category contains 4 posts. Hillary, Bernie, and Me. Posted by Dallas Taylor. June 8, 2016. I know it sounds strange to hear it, but there’s seriously never been a better time to be a progressive. Continue reading →. About This Whole Hillary/Bernie Thing. Posted by Dallas Taylor. March 18, 2016. No, You May Not Use My Image for Commercial Purposes Without Compensating Me. September 3, 2015.
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Grief Counseling (flash fiction) | [this space intentionally left blank]
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This space intentionally left blank]. Fictions and other writing by Dallas Taylor. Grief Counseling (flash fiction). Posted by Dallas Taylor. July 13, 2011. Grief Counseling (flash fiction). 8221; Josie cried. “Waaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh! 8221; Josie’s blubbering trailed off into silent shaking. Grant was amazed at how he still seemed able to hear it, as if the resonant frequency had shifted to the ultrasonic. Maybe this was what it was like when dogs heard a dog whistle. Whatever was happening, it seemed t...
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This space intentionally left blank]. Fictions and other writing by Dallas Taylor. A very short story, first written late one night at the Clarion Writers’ Workshop. Speculative fiction. Old Man Bradley’s Ghost. A very short story, originally written for NPR’s Three Minute Fiction Contest. Literary fiction. A very short story, originally written for NPR’s Three Minute Fiction Contest. Literary fiction. A very short story that just popped into my head several months ago. Literary fiction.
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Why I Wouldn’t Kill Hitler with My Time Machine | [this space intentionally left blank]
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This space intentionally left blank]. Fictions and other writing by Dallas Taylor. Why I Wouldn’t Kill Hitler with My Time Machine. Posted by Dallas Taylor. May 29, 2015. So, it’s a pretty classic thought experiment: If you had a time machine, would you go back and kill Hitler before he had a chance to start WWII? It goes like this:. One of the premises of the question is something called the Great Man Theory of History. And the pressures of industrialization: seriously, what was the cause of WWI? Withou...
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Calling a Spade a Spade: Why the Charleston Murders Were a Terrorist Act | [this space intentionally left blank]
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This space intentionally left blank]. Fictions and other writing by Dallas Taylor. Calling a Spade a Spade: Why the Charleston Murders Were a Terrorist Act. Posted by Dallas Taylor. June 19, 2015. Plenty of ink has been spilled in the wake of the blood spilled by DSR (whom I shan’t dignify by further promoting his name) Wednesday night at the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. Let’s unpack, then. That the killings were murders is, I think, uncontested. DSR went into the church, sat ...
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Bamboo (flash fiction) | [this space intentionally left blank]
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This space intentionally left blank]. Fictions and other writing by Dallas Taylor. Posted by Dallas Taylor. September 20, 2011. 8220;Good luck,” Cassie said, as she handed it to him and smiled. He smiled back, and thanked her. He’d had the plant in the car with him when he drove to his new city, watering it at rest stops and taking it into the hotel room with him so it didn’t freeze overnight. It was around this time that he met Maureen. He watered the bamboo less frequently, being so irregularly home...
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Because Of Course They Did: Wall Street Psychopaths Sue Federal Government for Bailing Them Out | [this space intentionally left blank]
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This space intentionally left blank]. Fictions and other writing by Dallas Taylor. Because Of Course They Did: Wall Street Psychopaths Sue Federal Government for Bailing Them Out. Posted by Dallas Taylor. June 11, 2015. So begins a June 7 Washington Post article by Steven Pearlstein. From which the majority of regular folks are still recovering. The story’s hero, tasked with killing Bernie, shows mercy and lets him get away. Somebody gives me an angle and I play it. It’s just my nature, Bernie sa...But t...
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Old Man Bradley’s Ghost (flash fiction) | [this space intentionally left blank]
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This space intentionally left blank]. Fictions and other writing by Dallas Taylor. Old Man Bradley’s Ghost (flash fiction). Posted by Dallas Taylor. June 24, 2011. Old Man Bradley’s Ghost (flash fiction). Some people swore that the house was haunted. It sat apart from the other houses in the neighborhood, decaying slowly as we grew older. No one had lived there since Old Man Bradley had died, which had happened so long ago that Jimmy Rumsey, the youngest kid in our group, hadn’t even been born yet. I was...
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This space intentionally left blank]. Fictions and other writing by Dallas Taylor. RSS feed for this section. This category contains 12 posts. The Limits of Argument. Posted by Dallas Taylor. June 10, 2016. Hillary, Bernie, and Me. Posted by Dallas Taylor. June 8, 2016. I know it sounds strange to hear it, but there’s seriously never been a better time to be a progressive. Continue reading →. Planting Seeds in Common Ground, or Why Don’t These A-holes Agree With Me? Posted by Dallas Taylor. March 21, 2016.
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