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Diary of a Heretic: Festivities
When Amanda was little, her mother delighted in raising her
hopes and dashing them with a swift tug of the rug. On her eighth birthday, her
mother had wondered if a blue, three-speed bicycle was just
waiting in the garage. Should they look?
“I guess.â€...
Dateline: 2013-05-16 11:02am -07:00T (1029 words)
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Diary of a Heretic: What Comes Around
Walter called from Detroit; his flight to L.A. cancelled.
“You sound exhausted.â€
“I’m frustrated. Once I’m in Melbourne, I’ll be fine. Is that giggling? Evie and Vanessa?â€
“They’re allowed outside until eight. Can your expensive pho...
Dateline: 2013-05-11 9:02pm -07:00T (1144 words)
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Diary of a Heretic: Diary of a Heretic
Diary of a Heretic is now a novel on Kindle. (Click here.) To avoid confusion, I’ve dropped the name from my banner. Over the years, I’ve rewritten and polished Malcolm's diary many times on this blog, showing how he becomes a reluctant cult...
Dateline: 2013-05-02 9:02pm -07:00T (129 words)
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Diary of a Heretic: Besieged
Arranging his arms behind her, Walter settled Amanda’s head so
that her neck arched back. Then he dipped forward, his tongue gliding up from
her collarbone to her chin. To keep from melting into a puddle, she pressed his
chest. He shifted her position...
Dateline: 2013-05-02 10:02am -07:00T (702 words)
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Diary of a Heretic: Bad Girl
Deep in the woods, Amanda woke flat on her back, the damp ground matted with leaves. Her arms and legs itched—new mosquito bites
everywhere, including up her shorts and through her T-shirt.
But she had woken
with a plan! One that would put Walter’s ...
Dateline: 2013-04-27 2:17pm -07:00T (1008 words)
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Diary of a Heretic: Not So Quiet Desperation
No tongues, no heaving lungs, no hidden crevices or swollen
tributaries, no racing, breaking hearts—that was Amanda’s secret refrain. When the girls fell asleep, Walter
built a fire and queued up jazz songs to fill the already hypnotic air with
other...
Dateline: 2013-04-20 1:17pm -07:00T (964 words)
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Diary of a Heretic: Ancient History
The girls bathed, put on nightgowns, and brushed their teeth. In
the big bed in Vanessa’s room, Amanda read them a story. They usually begged
for another chapter and were surprised when she read two more without them
swearing to be good a...
Dateline: 2013-04-11 9:17pm -07:00T (1029 words)
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Diary of a Heretic: Heaven Backwards
Eventually but much too soon, Walter released her. “Good Lord, Amanda, never let me do that again.†He stepped back and turned away to zip his windbreaker. For a long minute, he didn’t look at her and when he finally did, he had summoned his resolve...
Dateline: 2013-04-03 11:17pm -07:00T (1015 words)
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Diary of a Heretic: Playing House
Chloe said the purity of the mist was such that two tiny
spurts lifted you in the air all day. It had stung Amanda’s tongue in fast sprays of one-two; three-four. Yet the dispenser still looked full, like an
unused fragrance sample.
Hours later, she fo...
Dateline: 2013-03-29 4:47pm -07:00T (858 words)
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Diary of a Heretic: Another Pilgrimage to Chicago
We're off to Chicago where both my family and Manny's live. My parents are very religious and I wish I knew anything else as well as the Catechism. While I hadn't thought there was much of the two-thousand-something-year history I didn...
Dateline: 2013-03-22 3:47pm -07:00T (128 words)
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Diary of a Heretic: Golden Mist
Marrying Mike before she had dipped her toes in adulthood gave
Amanda a ready-made interior identity—a sense of self, call it what you will.
But
innocent of dreams and ignorant of her imagination’s sway, she had never yet: spoken
out of turn; compro...
Dateline: 2013-03-21 10:32am -07:00T (905 words)
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