Category: Transitory
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Welcome!
Mary Michelmore is the new curator of this site, formerly known as ‘Across Many a Bad Night’, a morbid blog about loneliness and death. Well, as John Milton began his poem ‘L’Allegro’ — ‘Hence loathèd Melancholy’ — Mary will oversee stories not about death, but about life. What a wonderful change that will be!
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Sunflowers for Susan
The pain in my gut has gone for now, probably because I ate and drank as little as possible today. Tomorrow, instead of hanging myself with a leather belt from a sturdy hook at the top of the door frame I will go to the plant shop and buy sunflower seeds and grow sunflowers for…
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Oblivion or ‘Spirit in the Sky’
When I die… goin’ up to the spirit in the sky. — Song lyric, Norman Greenbaum Come back. Even as a shadow, even as a dream. —Euripides One of the best Christmas dinners I ever had was sharing a turkey sandwich with my wife at her hospital bedside. She was in the intensive care unit.…
Mary Saves the Day 