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the artistic process is shady and subtle

A Story by Philip Gaber

I’d be off to the nearest bar drinking something the bartender had perfected in a test tube in the backroom, where he mainly saw inside trading ..

wrenched out of some familiar life-pattern

A Poem by Philip Gaber

I never get the girl I like.I always get the gangly, angry girlwith guileless eyes and stringy hairwho has a tendency toward aggressive passivity.Or t..

a before thought

A Poem by Philip Gaber

I read someplace there are like four basic questions in life. Who am I? Do you believe in God? Do you love me? And where do we go? (after we die?) I'm..

our absence from life

A Story by Philip Gaber

I was in Penn Station waiting for the train to take me to New Haven. I was sitting by myself, away from the crowd, reading something by John Paul Sart..

the 50-minute hour

A Stage Play by Philip Gaber

Him: I'm very angry.Doc: You're angry?Him: Yes.Doc: Why do you think you're angry?Him: I don't know! You're the guy who went to school to learn why pe..

he had a few things to sort out

A Story by Philip Gaber

II moved to L.A., played drums in a band, and met Itzhak Grossman, who said he discovered The Doors."Morrison was a drunk," he said. "Had issues with ..

she/they/them predators

A Poem by Philip Gaber

Cut-throat lesbians are stealing straight guy's girlfriends. Beware boys.a new novel by Jolly Belansky

our styles just didn't coalesce

A Story by Philip Gaber

I will forever remember that cold morning.I'd just returned from traveling cross-country in a beat-up Chevy on a month-long road trip in a quest for s..

trying to laugh at myself without making the audie..

A Story by Philip Gaber

I looked out the window and saw the moon rising behind the Observatory.I thought this time I had a chance. I could rise above mycircumstances, turn th..

my family tree has such a fungus

A Poem by Philip Gaber

I still can't get to the partwhere I'm supposed to be grateful.For anything.The unbearable sadness of lifetaints all things for me.Values, relationshi..