Category Archives: Magic

Penis Envy

August 11, 2010 – 1:45 pm

Nick Hornby explained in his book HIGH FIDELITY that the adult men do not engage in foreplay with women, because teenage girls tell young boys not to touch their breasts or dream of going for 3rd base. His 1970s were not the 2010s. More and more often men skip manual foreplay for sex toy activity [...]

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Child Lottery Ghosts

June 25, 2010 – 7:31 am

The Somali government is hard-pressed by warlords. Troops chew qat. Their afternoons are spent in a euphoric stupor. Few want to man roadblocks, so children have been drafted into the army. AK-47s replacing their battered toys. A few dollars a week for food. Lucky in a country where there is no work. Everyone loves the [...]

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Old Black Magic of Siam

June 13, 2010 – 8:59 am

Two years my friend, Pi-Noi brought his work crew down from Ban Nok to install an air-conditioning system in a Pattaya bar. The 400-kilometer drive gave them a healthy thirst and that night under my mango tree we drank a case of Chang Beer. Nearing midnight the bottles were empty, but the out-of-towners wanted more [...]

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Le Nécrophile

April 22, 2010 – 8:21 pm

The biggest house in Quincy Massachusetts was owned by a funeral director. His daughters were the most beautiful girls on the South Shore in 1967 and introduced Cream to their admirers. I was one of them. So was an apprentice embalmer for their father. The other suitors joked that Adam made love to the still [...]

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No Fear of Flying

March 29, 2010 – 7:45 pm

Witches were fearsome creatures in my youth. They consorted with Satan and seduced the souls of pure men. I must have met a score of the wanton succubus in my 20s. My faith wavered under the flames of their desire. The want for wealth weakened with their every caress. Sex was their reward and their [...]

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