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		<title>Dear Montreal</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2011 02:18:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniela Thions-Meyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wanted to tell you I miss you like an old lover I never could get over. I miss your silence in the winter cold and the warmth of summer days spent in your company. I miss the laughter in your voice and the secret complicity I had with your streets. I miss the grumbling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Living Morgue</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Sep 2010 05:07:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paula Munch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The buzzword that has Americans up in a roar these days is healthcare reform. As Barack Obama has put healthcare reform first and foremost on the list of changes that Americans can look forward to, Americans are fighting back fiercely. ]]></description>
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		<title>The Night I Drove Freeman Home</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 04:46:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Sheehan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We had come out of the Out Loud Open Mike meeting at Melrose’s Beebe Estate into a slick wind and minor patches of ice and snow.]]></description>
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		<title>The Dumpmaster’s Boy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jun 2010 21:09:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Sheehan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ears I had, and eyes, and I used them well. Before I walked by the group of men on the corner, bringing my grandfather’s lunch to the city dump where he worked, I knew they’d be talking about me.]]></description>
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		<title>Decision Borne by April Water</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 00:44:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Sheehan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was fishing off the bridge over the Ipswich River, a few hundred yards from the Topsfield Fairgrounds.]]></description>
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		<title>Uncertainty Speaks Volumes in the Sound of “Clock”</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 04:26:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mansor Pooyan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the vast clock-like machine that is our world]]></description>
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		<title>A terror state of siege</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 04:24:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mansor Pooyan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["Terror" is a varied collection of themes with echoes across its different parts, all equally vital to the whole.]]></description>
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		<title>“In Riskdom where I Lived”</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 04:21:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mansor Pooyan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Abdolrezaei ’s life and work does not fit into tidy pigeonholes. ]]></description>
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		<title>This Old House of Mine</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 20:02:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Sheehan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For history and legend sakes, certain attributes, character traits if you will, have to be appointed here at the beginning of This Old House (C. 1742), home for half a century of my life. ]]></description>
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		<title>Dilligaf: The Limbo</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 23:43:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nabina Das</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Getting on a real Ferris wheel is sometimes a better way to have my head spin. Sheher Dilli surpasses that wretched giant toy.]]></description>
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