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An Octopus Espresso Cup Moring starts with an octopus espresso cup made by a girl that didn’t like me. It is beautiful, white, gold rimmed, blue inside.

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Where is my future?

I am waiting. I am upset. My mailbox is still empty. This time last year I had already been rejected. Where is my letter? It is two weeks late now. I am trying to be patient but this is my future. Thirty miles south people are deciding my future. I am waiting. Anxiety is creeping along my skin. One year I have been working. They rejected me but not quite. Come again they say. Get better try…

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#flash fiction #flash nonfiction #prose poem

Cold: Am I really sick?

Cold. I have been sick for two days. I am in bed listless, with a vague rundown feeling. I am the type to argue with myself. Am I really sick? Yes. I am cold. Cold. I have no fever but I am cold. I put on sweatpants and a long sleeve shirt. In the afternoon I start to feel better. I warm up. I decided to do some errands. It is hard for me to stay still. I expect to stay better but something in…

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Another Bad delivery

Bad Uber eats deliveries stand out so much more than the good ones. It had been slow in the days after Thanksgiving. I guess people spent their Uber eats money holiday shopping. I got a ping for a McDonald’s pick up. It was grateful for the delivery but wary that it was from McDonald’s. McDonald’s deliveries had a tendency, more than others, to go wrong. As I made the pickup, I was thinking, I…

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weird uber eats adventures Vol 1

My interesting/ weird uber eats adventures Vol 1

I am an uber eats driver and it is mostly easy-going and smooth sailing but sometimes things get interesting. Here are some quirky things – weird I encountered as a driver. More times than you think, customers list the wrong delivery address. Uber eats has a feature when you can use the location of your phone to direct the driver to your location.…

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#blog #gig economy #side hustle #south florida #uber eats

When the check didn’t come I did the wrong thing

I didn’t realize this was my 12th day in a row working. I was tired and I wanted to take the day off but I pushed myself to work, I need the money. I hadn’t brought any real money in since I graduated college; I had run through my savings and I was behind. But my body wasn’t cooperating. I was worn out. I was driving uber eats. It wasn’t great money but it was money. I was back in school after…

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I thought never a C in college and then my transcript came.

Recently I have been saying – I never got a C in college- sneering it actually. Not ever a B minus, not ever a B. I said. I was sneering behind the back of the college students in the classes I was teaching. The ones that I didn’t think applied themselves. I would sneer for a moment and then be understanding, speculating

– maybe they had other obligations, maybe they just didn’t have the time.…

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#blog #college #college grades #gene

New Book—Selwyn R. Cudjoe’s “The Slave Master of Trinidad” — Repeating Islands The Slave Master of Trinidad: William Hardin Burnley and the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World by Selwyn R. Cudjoe will be published this fall (November 2018) by University of Massachusetts Press.

What it feels like to paint

I wish I could share the feeling of painting with you. I have painted all my life. Right now I am painting a portrait of a friend’s dog, an interesting pit bull with one ear that stands up and the other that flops down. I place my brushes in their brush holder on the table. The brush holder is contraption of a brown plastic disc about 5 inches high, 4 inches in diameter and festooned with holes,…

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