From Fiction Fiction
I shall continue to walk across the bridge that I'm building, until it is complete.
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Especially skilled are letter carriers at delivering mail that hasn't been sent.
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For swimming I prefer pools devoid of water.
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While we will build a new schoolhouse wholly from the materials of the old schoolhouse, we will continue to use the old schoolhouse until the new schoolhouse is built.
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We are climbing a hill that's sinking beneath our feet.
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For your appointment with death, always bring a lawyer.
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Doing nothing forever.
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Discovering the hereafter and reporting back.
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So determined was he to make fun of his extravagant experience, he wrote about himself not just in the third person but the fourth, fifth, and sometimes the sixth.
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When visiting a carousel in an amusement park, the more sophisticated kids bet on horses.
Author Bio
Individual entries on Richard Kostelanetz appear in Contemporary Poets, Contemporary Novelists, Postmodern Fiction, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, A Reader's Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers, the Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature, Webster's Dictionary of American Authors, and Encyclopedia Britannica, among other selective directories. His "Openings/Complete (Shorter) Stories" appeared in Issue 12 of The Cafe Irreal and "Openings" appeared in Issue 36. These short pieces are from Fiction Fiction, published by Archae Editions in 2020.