titles from the notebook...

• a series of melancholic ruminations upon strolling through the derelict atrium of the great spotted kiwi

• a disappointing list of metaphors or 9 reasons my bread has mold

• tender thoughts after witnessing a paleolithic era diorama

• discarded tapes sold at auction after the closure of local dating service: the quiet evolution of desperation

• discarded story draft found in copy center's recycle bin, crumpled next to a black and white scan of playboy

• candid observations written on a piece of hotel stationery

• partial list of impressions made on hotel stationery written by mr. mc connel greggers, room # 816, august the 9th, 2000

• data sample #119 in a series of 300 collected by dr. virgil osgood of longkirk university

• two lives moving toward a disappearing center