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The window

Gavin Colton December 5, 2019

I set the table while Mom faffed about the kitchen, mashing potatoes, carving turkey, and stirring the gravy, licking it off of the wooden spoon and muttering to herself, “more pepper.” I joined Dad...

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Eating alone

Gavin Colton November 22, 2019

Joe hung in the line to Bourbon & Toulouse for 15 minutes before making it to the register to order. He had just lost his job waiting tables at a restaurant downtown and fancied treating himself. His...

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First snow

Gavin Colton November 15, 2019

Ursula had been in the stacks looking through books about Ernest Hemingway for an essay when Irene texted her that the snow was really bucketing down and that she was on her way. They’d reduced themselves...

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Wedding day

Gavin Colton November 11, 2019

The night before the wedding, we ate at a deserted Mexican restaurant. I coached the groom’s parents through the menu of tamales and empanadas. Street food I informed them. After dinner the bride-to-be...

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Halloween got cancelled

Gavin Colton November 1, 2019

No one told Opal that Lexington had cancelled Halloween. He pulled out an old bed sheet, spread it smooth across the table and drew two circles with a black marker, feeling the distance between his eyes....

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Wash your bedsheets!

Gavin Colton October 10, 2019

It’s Sunday and you’re in bed. Kentucky lost again and there’s an Australian man marching by your dorm window, sign strung around his shoulders with shoelaces: “Will Kick for Money.”Beside your...

Do students really want luxury dorms?

Madison Rexroat September 12, 2017

UK is actually the University of Kenstruction as everywhere you turn there are new dorms, new facilities, new ~everything~ being built. But for all the millions of dollars spent on those new amenities...

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