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Bob Merckel

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"Salute" is a book about yoga and not about yoga. Moving through the Sun Salute, it's about starting over and giving ourselves permission to fail.

2024

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one hundred twenty-four

Why couldn’t she make her own lunch? (is this a tuna 200?)

3d ago

one hundred twenty-four

3d ago

Published in

one hundred twenty-three

Those aren’t Skittles, Grandma. They’re edibles.

Oct 14

one hundred twenty-three

Oct 14

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8/31: Horrific hospitals, even in Canada

Looking at “Old Bones” by Kate Gunn Winner, CBC Short Fiction Prize, 2024

Oct 9

8/31: Horrific hospitals, even in Canada

Oct 9

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7/31: What do you do with a problem like young Julie, Mariana?

Looking at “Julie” by Mariana Enríquez A Sunny Place for Shady People: Stories, 2024

Oct 8

7/31: What do you do with a problem like young Julie, Mariana?

Oct 8

Published in

one hundred twenty-two

What the heck is a Tuesday 200?

Oct 8

one hundred twenty-two

Oct 8

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6/31: Friends are overrated. Aren’t they?

Looking at “The man who had no friends and didn’t want any” William Maxwell, 1965

Oct 6

6/31: Friends are overrated. Aren’t they?

Oct 6

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5/31: Something’s fishy at Dad’s dinner

Looking at “The Family Supper” by Kazuo Ishiguro, 1983

Oct 5

5/31: Something’s fishy at Dad’s dinner

Oct 5

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4/31: Still Life in a Helsinki Airport

Looking at “In Transit”, by Mavis Gallant Paris Stories, 2006 Originally published in The New Yorker, 1965

Oct 5

4/31: Still Life in a Helsinki Airport

Oct 5

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3/31: They’ll Teach their Kids to Swim. Someday. Maybe.

Looking at “The Pool”, by T. Coraghessan Boyle

Oct 4

3/31: They’ll Teach their Kids to Swim. Someday. Maybe.

Oct 4

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2/31: “Everything above is loud and bright, everything below is whispers.”

Looking at “Drown”, by Junot Diaz

Oct 3

2/31: “Everything above is loud and bright, everything below is whispers.”

Oct 3

Bob Merckel

Bob Merckel

he/him

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Author of "Salute" writer / editor / your favorite language teacher's language teacher bouncing around in Barcelona and Provincetown.

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