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Keith is a 23-year-old would-be writer, blogger, musician, and wannabe cultural critic. All Things That Are Good is his personal blog. More »
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Attention Paid to Unnecessary Things
You were upset with me again. You were wearing that white hoodless sweatshirt with an image of a wolf on the front and, unintentionally, I had just gotten a young girl at the park to repeat out loud that “wolves are so last year.” I thought it was one of the funniest things I’d ever [...]
Me, Too
I grabbed the pills—I don’t know what for; I hadn’t planned to do anything with them. Or maybe I had and just didn’t know it yet—and started to move towards the door. But she got there first. For her petite frame, she was much stronger than she appeared. I tried forcibly to move her out of the [...]
Just Last The Year
“And I told you to be patient, and I told you to be fine!” Justin’s brittle falsetto bursts from the Sebring’s surround sound speakers. You said you wanted it turned all the way up, so that you could sing along. I assumed otherwise you wouldn’t. It sounded as if my ear drums were going to [...]
New Year’s, Past and Future
I don’t remember now where I was on December 31, 1999. If it was anything like years prior, I imagine that I spent it at my parents house in Massachusetts, a fire in the fireplace and (with the idyllic twisting of memory that always inevitably occurs) perhaps drinking some kind of warm chocolaty beverage—who knows. [...]
The Trip or the Fall
I do a lot of talking, but I never really learn. ＊ As we walked away from class, I playfully teased her about making a phone call while we were talking. I would have asked her right then and there, had my friend not already asked in class an hour before. When she saw her [...]
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