Fiction

Apr 1, 20222 min

Aladdin's Genie

Aladdin's Genie Paul Hawkins He came to my yard sale and paid for an old toaster with $5 worth of nickels. I was asking $7 for it, but...

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Last Streetcar at Twilight - Excerpted from "Prometheus Fit to be Tied"

Paul Hawkins

Jan 28, 20222 min

Last Streetcar at Twilight - Excerpted from "Prometheus Fit to be Tied"

White would leave his office at twilight and go to meet Atalanta at the interurban's depot. Atalanta supported her father by teaching at...

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Paul Hawkins

Jan 22, 20223 min

A Cure for All Known Diseases

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Paul Hawkins

Nov 26, 20212 min

Last Streetcar at Twilight - A Romance

White would leave his office at twilight and go to meet Atalanta at the interurban's depot. Atalanta supported her father by teaching at...

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Paul Hawkins

Oct 9, 20212 min

It Had Been an American Century

I had to cut this out of "Angels and Electrons" because it interrupted the pacing, but I like it. I wrote it in 2012 but as always I was...

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Prologue to “Angels and Electrons” - Radio

Paul Hawkins

Oct 2, 20214 min

Prologue to “Angels and Electrons” - Radio

Dedication: To the memory of my father Tell all the Truth but tell it slant - Emily Dickinson Tell all the Truth but tell it slant---...

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Excerpt from “Angels and Electrons: A Suburb Tale - on the Ultima Thule

Paul Hawkins

Sep 28, 20211 min

Excerpt from “Angels and Electrons: A Suburb Tale - on the Ultima Thule

Thinking of this while driving this evening, from my Sub-suburbs Tale. It’s actually a pretty funny novel, but it’s also got to stick to...

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Paul Hawkins

Jul 12, 20212 min

The Love Poem on a Grain of Rice

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Paul Hawkins

Jul 11, 20211 min

Phil Lamont - Attorney for the Damned

Phil Lamont spent his afterlife being the attorney for the damned. Each and every damned person got maybe ten minutes in court to plead...

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Paul Hawkins

Apr 12, 20211 min

The Eight Mountain

Paul Hawkins And so they climbed the seventh mountain; and six mountains they climbed first, and each was more arduous than the last, and...

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My Summer, Myself, My Student Loan Debt - A Post-Graduate Confession

Paul Hawkins

Dec 1, 20206 min

My Summer, Myself, My Student Loan Debt - A Post-Graduate Confession

A disillusioned young man, graduated with no hope for the future and with mountains of student loan debt, resigns himself to the life of...

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