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	<title>Life in the Margins</title>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:33:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Marking Boundaries</title>
		<link>http://lifeinthemargins.com/2009/04/30/marking-boundaries/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:33:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Barker</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[21st Century Terrors]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Assholes]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Pets]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Urology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I set out on my morning walk with the dog – the same routine as always (what other kind of routine is there?) – pee on the front lawn by the road (the dog, not me), first by the granite boulder on the east side of the lot, then by the pole that supports the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chapter 1</title>
		<link>http://lifeinthemargins.com/2009/04/22/chapter-1/</link>
		<comments>http://lifeinthemargins.com/2009/04/22/chapter-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 20:09:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Barker</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Sci-Fi]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I thought I&#8217;d use Earth Day to inaugurate a new project:  an eco Sci-Fi allegory in which humans have to wrestle with their own tendency to devour all their resources.  It&#8217;s tentatively titled 23.44 degrees (the angle of the Earth&#8217;s axis in relation to its orbital plane).  I&#8217;d aim to post a short chapter each [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Easter</title>
		<link>http://lifeinthemargins.com/2009/04/11/easter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 14:09:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Barker</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In &#8216;63 with gas turned on,
Head in the oven and gone,
Her final poem bristles like a crime scene.
I scour for clues but find none,
No more than for any other cosmic lie.
I read her backwards:  Ariel to Colossus,
Steaming upriver to the heart of darkness,
But no one waits for me on the jetty.
At the waul of a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Griefbot Inc.</title>
		<link>http://lifeinthemargins.com/2009/03/23/griefbot-inc/</link>
		<comments>http://lifeinthemargins.com/2009/03/23/griefbot-inc/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:03:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Barker</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[21st Century Terrors]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Fiction]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Robots]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Sex]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Project:  Hughes, Edward
Interview:  0031957 (Voice Calibration)
Interviewer: Ginsberg, Alan
So ya, man.  Name?  Hughes.  Ya.  Ted.  So ya, man, I worked on the GB20 design team.  You owe me.  You owe me big time.  In fact, you guys should be on your knees kissing the ground we walk on.  We hit a veracity factor – nine point [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Incredible Shrinking Zombie</title>
		<link>http://lifeinthemargins.com/2009/03/16/the-incredible-shrinking-zombie/</link>
		<comments>http://lifeinthemargins.com/2009/03/16/the-incredible-shrinking-zombie/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:48:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Barker</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[21st Century Terrors]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Fiction]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Zombies]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I had forgotten to take my meds again – not just a one time thing, but an “Oh shit” sinking feeling in the bottom of my stomach when I saw a full bottle of pills sitting on the window sill above the kitchen sink and realized a whole month had passed me by and still [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons from an Aphasic Priest</title>
		<link>http://lifeinthemargins.com/2009/01/19/lessons-from-an-aphasic-priest/</link>
		<comments>http://lifeinthemargins.com/2009/01/19/lessons-from-an-aphasic-priest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 20:49:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Barker</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[21st Century Terrors]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Dweebs]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Fiction]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Sex]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The gavel came down with a crack, which surprised me, because I thought that courts didn’t use real gavels anymore.  I thought gavels were symbols of office, for decoration only, like a captain’s sextant or a priest’s bible.  But there it was – a sharp stroke against the wooden desk that sounded in my head [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Improvisation on an Earlobe</title>
		<link>http://lifeinthemargins.com/2008/12/31/improvisation-on-an-earlobe/</link>
		<comments>http://lifeinthemargins.com/2008/12/31/improvisation-on-an-earlobe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 22:39:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Barker</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Of all the useless appendages,
your earlobe is the loveliest.
I’ve never nibbled on your tonsils
and know nothing of appendices.
I whisper and it stirs
the white down that grows there.
Like the soft sand of Normandy,
it’s the beachhead of my advance.
I order my words, and off
they go, over the top,
to take the cochlea,
the stirrup and anvil!  With precision
and discipline, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beautiful Losers</title>
		<link>http://lifeinthemargins.com/2008/12/23/beautiful-losers/</link>
		<comments>http://lifeinthemargins.com/2008/12/23/beautiful-losers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2008 02:05:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Barker</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Fiction]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Sex]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Suburbia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You know how the song goes:  “When you’re in love with a beautiful woman, it’s hard….”  That’s how I’ve always felt with Suzanne.  I try to hide it, but there are times when my insecurities emerge low in my viscera and refuse to go away.  We’ll be at a dinner party and I’ll glance across [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seventy-Two</title>
		<link>http://lifeinthemargins.com/2008/12/16/seventy-two/</link>
		<comments>http://lifeinthemargins.com/2008/12/16/seventy-two/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 20:51:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Barker</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[21st Century Terrors]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Assholes]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Fiction]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Fundamentalists]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Sex]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://lifeinthemargins.com/?p=41</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Mohammed had been sitting outside on a rock for about a thousand years when Youssef pushed his way from the tent to join his brother.  For nearly a hundred years, Mohammed had been waiting on the rock while Youssef deflowered virgin number seventy-two, taking her every-which-way his imagination would allow.  In the sand at his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Desiccator</title>
		<link>http://lifeinthemargins.com/2008/11/25/the-desiccator/</link>
		<comments>http://lifeinthemargins.com/2008/11/25/the-desiccator/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:59:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Barker</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[21st Century Terrors]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Fiction]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Suburbia]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Norm and I had been on vacation when Ed across the road from us took his spell or whatever it was he took that ended up killing him and left poor Thelma all alone in that big old house of hers.  So, on account of us being in Wichita Falls at the time, Norm and [...]]]></description>
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