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Quote : Margaret Wise Brown

In the great green room,
there was a telephone
And a red balloon
And a picture of a cat
jumping over the moon...

Margaret Wise Brown
  • By David Todd McCarty
  • September 5, 2016August 20, 2025
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Fiction

They Go Flat

“They go flat,” she said. “What goes flat?” I asked. “The cats,” she said and motioned to the old black cat laying on its side on the deck. She sucked on the crab leg she was pointing with and continued, “They go flat in the summer.” I looked over at…

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  • By David Todd McCarty
  • September 4, 2016
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Essay

Research Suggests Dicks Pics A Failure

Dear Men: We have recently concluded an exhaustive study, including numerous discussions with persons of the female gender, and have determined that the once hopeful program, “Digital Genitalia Distribution in Order to Influence and Entice Women” through the act of sending pictures of your penis via digital means, has not only been…

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  • By David Todd McCarty
  • August 25, 2016
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Essay

The Value of Fasting

I’ve been a lot of thinking lately about a certain corned beef sandwich, preferably grilled with butter, on a nice sturdy rye, with mustard and melted swiss. There’s a perfect pickle there as well. It’s a fantasy that is currently knocking about in my head. I’m on day six of what…

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  • By David Todd McCarty
  • July 15, 2016
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Quote : Hemingway

I drink to make other people more interesting.

Ernest Hemingway
  • By David Todd McCarty
  • July 13, 2016August 20, 2025
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Fiction

Bar Talk

“So she looked at it and said, ‘What the fuck is that supposed to be?’ And I said, ‘I don’t know, this was your idea,’” said Dave. The guys laughed. Dave, Frank and Carl sat together at Fred’s on a Wednesday afternoon. They’d known each other since grade school. Sometimes…

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  • By David Todd McCarty
  • July 13, 2016August 18, 2025
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Quote: Phil Edwards

The best surfer out there is the one having the most fun.

Phil Edwards
  • By David Todd McCarty
  • July 13, 2016August 20, 2025
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Fiction

Going to Church

Back before the accident we’d always go surfing on Sunday mornings. He called it going to church. “Come on, let’s go to church,” he’d say. “I’ll call you in the morning. We don’t want to be late.” Then he’d laugh and slap his knee like he hadn’t said that a…

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  • By David Todd McCarty
  • July 13, 2016
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Essay

Nostalgia

When my stepson was very small, he liked to talk about things that he had experienced, sometimes as recently as a week before or even a few days. It’s not like he could remember very far back. He didn’t have years worth of memories. It was more like weeks or…

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  • By David Todd McCarty
  • July 13, 2016
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Quote: Sam Shepard

“I had a definite sense of somehow being a passenger in an evil vehicle cruising through Paradise.”

Sam Shepard
  • By David Todd McCarty
  • July 12, 2016August 20, 2025
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David Todd McCarty

A cranky romantic searching for hope and humor. I tell stories. Most of them are true. I’m not at all interested in your outrage, but I do feel your pain.

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